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Google Social Search On or Off the Mark?

Published by Your SEO Mentor under Google, SEO, Social Media, Web 2.0

Oct
27
2009

So Google Social Search is the big topic again lately because of their recent blog post Introducing Google Social Search: I finally found my friend’s New York blog!

Here is what they had to say about their new experiment:

“Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person. Unfortunately, that information isn’t always very easy to find in one simple place. That’s why today we’re rolling out a new experiment on Google Labs called Google Social Search that helps you find more relevant public content from your broader social circle. It should be available for everyone to try by the end of the day, so be sure to check back.”

So the question is, Is Google Search On or Off the Mark?

I think they are making good strides but it seems slow. I talked to my good friend Dave Harry about Google Social Search and this is what he had to say:

“I think it’s interesting… but still has a ways to go… but certainly can’t be ignored as far as what they’re looking to do. I think Google Wave would work well with it also…soooo… might be tied together…”

You can read Dave’s full article Google Social Search; an early review

Here is a video from the famous Matt Cutts about the new Google Social Search -

Well tell me what you think by commenting below.

Here are some other articles on the Google Social Search news:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/14985/google_social_search_searches_your_social_circle

http://mashable.com/2009/10/26/social-search-launch/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/10/26/google-social-search-launches-twitter-friendfeed-but-not-facebook-highlighted/

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Tags: Dave Harry, Google Social Search, Google Wave, Matt Cutts, Social Media, video

One Response to “Google Social Search On or Off the Mark?”

Google Search - Twitter - Social Search | SEO Training Says:
November 1st, 2009 at 9:21 am
[...] Google Social Search – “Social Search finds relevant content that your social circle has published and returns that content with your web search results. To use Social Search, you need to be logged in to your Google Account and opted in to the Social Search experiment. We then analyze your Gmail contacts (if you have a Gmail account) and the connections on your social networks (if you have a Google Profile and have listed public social networks like Twitter and FriendFeed).” [...]