Google introduces Google Social Search

November 4, 11:10 AMInternet Business ExaminerPhyllis Zimbler Miller

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Google has introduced Google Social Search – another specialized search function that can help you collect information on a topic.

Here’s the opening information from the October 26th official Google blog:

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.

(Google Labs is the location of “Google’s latest ideas”)

Basically, here’s what Google Social Search is:

First, you must add this search function to your Google search web options. Then when you search for something -- besides getting the organic searches you’ll get tweets, blog posts, etc. on the search term from your social circle.

Listen to the two brief Google videos on the Google blog post to learn more, including from which three arenas Google is drawing the information on who is in your social circle.

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