Google lets you search your social circle

Since the social revolution has taken place on the internet, there been a drastic change in the nature of much of the content published on the web. As Google points out:

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.

Enter Google Social Search, which helps you to “find more relevant public content from your broader social circle”. Social search combines results from your friends’ blogs, Flickr, Twitter, FriendFeed, and a wide variety of other social media sites (so long as your friends have connected their social accounts to their Google profiles) with Google’s regular search results.

This new feature will display relevant search results from your social circle at the bottom of the search results page. This could be travel photos from your friends, a recent blog post, a set of status updates, or other information Google pulls from supported social networking sites.

Here’s a video explaining Google Social Search:

Google Social Search is now available from Google Labs. Go try it out!

Frederik De Bosschere

Source:
The Official Google Blog

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