<< 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. >>
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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:
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Hi Phillip
u can Link my Twitter a/c with my name (which is twitter.com/BizAbh) in the Post . thnx |
That's a very beneficial idea. Let Google start it. WE shall support it.That may help users in different ways. |
Bing did about the same a couple of days ago:
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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: blogoscoped.com/forum/162313.h ...
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? |
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Via TOMHTML twitter.com/zorgloob |
Here's an official video of the Social Search demo: + Show video
And mention in the official Google Blog: googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/1 ... |
