Google has had a "Social Search" feature for some time, but those results were always put at the bottom of the results page. On Thursday, Google expanded that, and now those social results will be interspersed into the middle of your results.
In addition to moving the results up the page, Google is expanding the coverage of the social aspect. In the past, Google would show you results that people created and linked through their Google profiles. Now, Google has added references in the results to links that people you are connected to have shared on Twitter and other sites.
What missing from all this? The biggest social networking site of them all, Facebook, that's what. The fact that Bing has had “Facebook Liked Results” since last October. We know that Facebook and Google don't really "like" each other.
Is this an introduction to the rumored (and denied) GoogleMe initiative? OR is it just the additional social networking layers that Google said it was adding, instead of GoogleMe? The changes will be rolling out gradually, typical of the cloud.
You can watch a video on the changes below.
Via: Google
In addition to moving the results up the page, Google is expanding the coverage of the social aspect. In the past, Google would show you results that people created and linked through their Google profiles. Now, Google has added references in the results to links that people you are connected to have shared on Twitter and other sites.
What missing from all this? The biggest social networking site of them all, Facebook, that's what. The fact that Bing has had “Facebook Liked Results” since last October. We know that Facebook and Google don't really "like" each other.
Is this an introduction to the rumored (and denied) GoogleMe initiative? OR is it just the additional social networking layers that Google said it was adding, instead of GoogleMe? The changes will be rolling out gradually, typical of the cloud.
You can watch a video on the changes below.
Via: Google
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