Check Out Google Social Search
If you are an internet enthusiast, you may now be familiar with the new Google experiment called Google Social Search? If not, let me tell you about this new thing from Google.
Google Social Search helps you find relevant public web content from people in your social circle. Usually, if you want to search for a web content written by your friend or from people you know, you have to visit their blogs or log on to your favorite social media sites and read their recent updates and posts. But, with the arrival of Social Search, it’s now very easy to find relevant published content in one simple place from your social circle.
The feature of Social Search is strongly connected to Google Profiles and Google Mail. Of course, you need to update your Google Profile to be interconnected and optimized your search results. You can add a link to your Twitter to your profile and Google will find the people you follow as well as the content that they have created such as blogs, photo albums, videos and reviews. You can also see relevant articles from your Google Reader subscriptions.
For example, you are looking for useful and relevant content about iPhone from your social circle, it’s not necessarily easy because your contacts’ blogs or posts may not show up on the first page of the search results. What you can do is filter your search results to see results from your friends or contacts. You just have to click Show Options at the top of the search results page to open the Options Panel. Then click Social to filter the results.
The following people are included in your social circle:
1. People you’re connected to through social media sites like Twitter and FriendFeed.
2. Your contacts in your Gmail or GTalk list.
3. People in your friends, family and coworkers contact groups in Google.
To improve your social search results and to enhance how you appear in other people’s social search results, you have to create a Google profile and add links to content that you want to share. You also need to publish additional web content and make sure it’s all linked to your profile.
Now that you already have an idea of how Google Social Search works, you better start experimenting because it’s now available in Google Labs.
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