Bing and Google

Personally, I don't like the idea of social networking information being published on Bing, or any other search engine for that matter. The first obvious issue that it brings up is privacy. Anyone world wide being able to search for your status update seems a little too open ended to me. Yes, there will be extensive privacy settings that will limit this, but does the average user of facebook and twitter actually manipulate the possible privacy settings on their accounts? I can see this being a problem when, for example, a company looking to hire searches the applicant's name on Bing. They then see the applicant's status concerning how wasted they got the other night. One might say that this is the user's fault for even publishing that information, but still I don't like the fact that that situation could in fact happen.

Yes, this might push Bing up in the search engine market, but I don't think that they will make a dent in Google's share of the market. In fact, I like the idea of google's take on social search more: The search you perform is based on your gmail contacts list. This, I feel, would help curb privacy issues. http://www.google.com/experimental/index.html