Take that Google! Microsoft on Wednesday is expected to announce separate nonexclusive partnerships with both Facebook and Twitter to integrate the two services' real-time feed of status updates into
the Bing search engine. Google, meanwhile, has been in talks with Twitter and Facebook about similar deals.
Boomtown reports that Microsoft digital head Qi Lu will announce the deal
onstage Wednesday afternnon at the Web 2.0 Summit. Despite all the hype around Twitter, Facebook has the largest pool of status updates around. The top social network previously stated that it has 40
million updates a day on average. The new feeds are not expected to be up and running for weeks, if not months.
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This article mentions that no one knows if Google will also have a similar "Social Search". Actually, yes we do know that Google will have Social Search, in fact it was revealed at the Web 2.0 Summit.
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220900052&subSection=News
For me it is unclear whether social search will enhance or further dilute the results available in natural search queries. When statistics show that the majority of social mentions are "random thoughts" I am not sure how that may assist someone using a search engine to ferret true information.