Google Social Search Goes Live – Search is more social now.

October 27, 2009
By sinha

Google has launched it’s social search service that brings relevant web content written by people in your social circle.

Google defines one’s social circle as a combination of Gmail chat buddies, your Gmail contacts friends, family and co-worker groups, and people you’re publicly connected to on other social sites (such as Twitter and FriendFeed) – based on one’s profile details.

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With Social Search, you’ll be able to more easily find relevant public content from your social circle, including the following:

  • Websites, blogs, public profiles, and other content linked from your friends’ Google profiles.
  • Web content from social services, such as tweets and reviews, that your friends have listed in their Google profiles.
  • Relevant articles from your Google Reader subscriptions.

Once you join the experiment, you will see the ‘results from your social circle’ at the bottom of the page.

Do give Google Social Search a spin – it surely enhances the value of search and brings more connectedness.

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2 Responses to “ Google Social Search Goes Live – Search is more social now. ”

  1. Vishnu on October 27, 2009 at 9:28 am

    Ummm

    Nah am not for it.. U think I am 40 years old to get more feeds from my contacts? Well, I don’t know if I got the concept rite?

    So, if its what that I assumed then.. Vishnu’s says a Big no and stay out of it till I reach 30 atleast..

    Laters

    V

  2. Benjamin Fernandez on November 15, 2009 at 2:15 am

    I joined the social search experiment and have been trying to see results from my friends, but i dont get any results/

    You have to get a google profile in the first place for Social search to work, i did that.. still no results/ i guess ur friends need to join the experiment too then?

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