Microsoft's search engine (or social network?) Socl is open to beta testers. Yes, there are tiles too!

Microsoft has opened a beta version of its social network for everyone. The project has been in closed beta since December 2011, and earlier users had to receive an invite.

Socl is a by-product of Microsoft's FuSE (Future Social Experiences) Labs, according to which Socl in its current version does not match the original version, because the interface has been changed. Lili Cheng, head of FUSE, said: “The way people used Socl was very different from our plans.”

Users can log in to the service using their Facebook or Microsoft account. Some users said that at first the service seems strange. After logging in with the Facebook account, and entering the “cat” query, the service issued 2 columns of results, of which the left one was titled “Picasso” and contained a bunch of Picasso pictures, and the right one was filled with images of dissatisfied cats . In the results of Picasso, there was nothing about cats at all, so it is not clear why they appeared in the results.
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A click on the picture opens the page where the image is located - it can be a blog, a website, etc. Socl is similar to the strange combination of Reddit, Pintrest, and Facebook, combined in a supposedly search service. While it is not known how Microsoft can release the search engine in the open navigation.

source: Slashgear