Facebook status messages intended to be public ? instead of just viewed by friends ? are expected to be integrated into Bing.
Twitter and Facebook search features promise to be a boost for Bing, which has made steady if unspectacular progress in wresting a bigger share of the lucrative search and advertising market away from Google.
Not to be outdone, Mayer used the summit stage to demonstrate a "social search" feature to launch at its Labs website in "a couple of weeks."
The "beta," or test, service goes beyond Twitter feeds to incorporate in search results pictures, comments and other content from people's online social networks.
"We have inserted on the bottom of the page content by people in your social network," Mayer said while demonstrating.
To dabble with the social search feature people will have to "opt-in" at Google Labs.
Google remains the internet search king, commanding approximately 65 percent of the US market.
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