<< Social Search, said Mayer, recognizes a fundamental need for real-time information and demonstrates Google's commitment to innovating in search.
Social Search will be launched in a few weeks as a Google Labs experiment. As its name suggest, it integrates information created by people in a searcher's Google network – defined by one's list of Google Contacts – into Google search results.

Mayer demonstrated how a search for "New Zealand" produced a list of search results that included relevant content created by friends midway-down the search results page. Among the search results were links to a Gmail message that referenced New Zealand and a FriendFeed entry, each from a different friend.

In order for Social Search to work, users much have a Google Account, a Google Profile, and friends listed as Google Contacts. >>

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220900052&subSection=News

More details from Search Engine Land: http://searchengineland.com/google-social-search-is-coming-more-on-google-twitter-28292

and TechCrunch: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/21/web-2-0-summit-marrisa-mayer-shows-off-social-search-results-from-your-social-netowrk/

I worry that diluting the results with even more sources will confuse people; though the contrary when some searches return nothing but effectively the same disguised ads is too extreme. Presently the alternative book/scholar/.. views on a search work well because you have a preset notion of the space you are entering – similarly when I search twitter. Yes, having integrated images on a search result page saves time but I think they make me less effective and almost involuntarily I find myself drawn to the prettiest picture.

The post by Twitter:
http://blog.twitter.com/2009/10/google-nice.html

Hi Phillip
u can Link my Twitter a/c with my name (which is twitter.com/BizAbh) in the Post . thnx

Done, thanks!

That's a very beneficial idea. Let Google start it. WE shall support it.That may help users in different ways.

just for fun

http://www.twitlogo.com/c/9ea84b7b5741a75fef1dbb9871481405.png

Bing did about the same a couple of days ago:

http://www.bing.com/community/blogs/search/archive/2009/10/21/bing-is-bringing-twitter-search-to-you.aspx?WT.mc_id=Twiiter_BingTwittersearch

Twitter is selling its tweets to whomever wants to integrate them.

It makes me think of del.icio.us back in the days which was implicitly building a search engine. Too bad it got sold to Yahoo. I'm still amazed that for a search company Yahoo never took / understood this opportunity.

My bet is that twitter is over hyped and going down (it really only took off thanks to their TV campaign / manipulation) and that its Facebook which might become king of the hill for social search and ultra fresh results.

doesn't look like the other thread is getting merged into this so i'm just going to copy my comment over: http://blogoscoped.com/forum/162313.html#id162323

I don't like the idea of Google partnering with certain content providers/networks/whatever-it-is-you-would-call-twitter for a special kind of search. The beauty of the way Google does things is that it's independent of these kinds of agreements. What about identi.ca and other microblogging services?

Good point DPic!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdlasica/4036278022/

Via TOMHTML twitter.com/zorgloob

Here's an official video of the Social Search demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L40m9qjy7cA

And mention in the official Google Blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/this-week-in-search-102409.html