Microsoft Bing’s Twitter and Facebook Social Search [Updated: Google Now In]

According to All Things Digital (WSJ), Facebook and Twitter have both agreed to allow users’ status updates to be searchable on Bing’s search engine.

Congratulations to our favorite social networking giants for another opportunity to push up their popularity to a higher level.

However, is it good news to them and bad news for their valuable users?

I’m sure some of us are worried about privacy issues after reading this. Is everything going to be on the search engine? The answer is yes but users might have the option to switch it off. Details are still unconfirmed.

With so many cases of “security leak” in both sites, this deal has certainly put our private information on the line, again.

Do you welcome this deal? Let us know via comments below.

Updates: The Tweet-Face-Bing Search

Bing has inked a deal with Facebook and Twitter to integrate their status updates into its search.

Twitter goes live before Facebook in Beta today. Not only are you able to search for tweets based on recency and relevancy, you can view the hottest topics via a Twitter tag cloud.

According to the Bing Social Search Team: