Just a few days ago we were talking about a new feature on Bing, Microsoft’s search engine and Google’s biggest competitor, which integrates Facebook status updates into its search results. You didn’t expect the giant powerhouse AKA Google to just sit back and take a punch to the chin, did you?

In one swift motion Google pounced into the social search market by adding Google Social Search. The company announced that Google Labs’ new feature would be available starting Monday and would integrate things like Twitter updates and photos from Flickr into the bottom of search result pages. The results are pulled from social networks connected to users’ Google Profiles. The more connected you are, the more you can have your stuff shared in search results.

While more exact details of the what and how havn’t quite been answered yet, there is no question that search engines, and SEO, are changing drastically.

This is great news for all of us that use social media for marketing. Once the integration begins companies, and individuals, will be able to update their status on Facebook and have those updates, which could be carrying information on upcoming events or promotions, appear to the large audience searching the web. Along with Twitter feeds, RSS feeds, and blogs, the world of social media marketing is becoming more versatile and powerful by the minute.

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