Google Social Search in It’s Race With Facebook

Sometimes when you’re searching, having information from people you know can be really useful. Like when you’re planning a trip. Wouldn’t it be great to see recommendations and opinions from your friends and contacts?When you’re signed into your Google account and you do a search, you’ll start seeing results from people you’re connected to on Blogger, Twitter, Flickr and publicly available sites. Beneith these results, you’ll see the names and profile photos of the people who share or published the information.Let’s say I’m planning an upcoming trip and I’m thinking about going hiking.I see my friend Mike tweeted about his great hike in Yosemity… “That looks like the perfect trip for me”.Now I need to figure out where I’m going to stay… When I search for campsites, I see my friend Jill’s Flickr Album from her trip to Yosemity, “the view from her campsite looks amazing so I’ll try to stay there”.Seeing her photos reminds me that I need to get a better camera for this trip. When I search for cameras, I see a blog result from Aariana. Hovering over her name, I see that she is a professional photographer that I follow on Twitter… “I’ll click over to her blog and see what she recommends”.Go try it out for yourself. You can get ideas and recommendations from people you trust right in your search results. If you want even more content and recommendations, you can link to your Twitter, Flickr and other accounts. It’s all the goodness you’ve come to expect from Google, plus the opinions of your friends, family and others on the web, just when you need them the most.

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