Earlier this week, Facebook announced its plans for its own internal search engine, called Graph Search, that will also include web-based search results from Microsoft's Bing engine. Now, Microsoft has announced that it will be adding even more Facebook features to its Bing sidebar.

The official Bing blog states:

Starting today, five times more of your friends’ content on Facebook is searchable in the sidebar – including status updates, shared links, comments and photos from your friends. With the addition of status updates, shared links and comments to the sidebar, it’s now easier to see who knows and what they've shared related to your search. So when your friends aren’t around, Bing is the perfect stand-in.