Google Labs Launches Social Search

brit:

mikehudack:

gbattle:

Who was saying Google was “past tense” last week?  Commence with the compression of “now”, as predicted.  It’s amazing the innovation you can unlock when you have the entire internet cached.  Everything else - social graph, aggregation, reputation, etc. - is just filters.  Good luck copying that Twitter/Facebook-FriendFeed. I’ll be test driving this sucker for a bit.

Just signed up for this experiment. It doesn’t seem to do anything for me.

How to view social results:

1) You’ll see a link at the bottom of results titled “Results from people in your social circle” for some searches (not all).

2) Better option: Click on “+ Show options” at the top of the search results page, then filter by “Social”.

Still not working for me. “Your search - new york - did not match any documents. Reset search options” That can’t be right… Do I need to link my Twitter and Facebook accounts to my Google account or something?

Cite Arrow reblogged from brit
12 notes | | Oct 26, 2009
  1. adaugelli reblogged this from brit and added:
    Announcement last week now seems really premature … I miss the years where Google would surprise us with a Beta launch...
  2. gbattle reblogged this from caterpillarcowboy and added:
    gbattle sez: Yes, you need to hook in all of your social networks in your Google Profile (#protip: enter the link to...
  3. brit reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    Ah yes, make sure to connect your networks on your Google profile: google.com/profiles.
  4. caterpillarcowboy reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    I’m waiting for the inevitable “Oh, you need to set up your friends on Google” that tanks this whole idea. Hell, Gmail...
  5. mikehudack reblogged this from brit and added:
    Still not working for me. “Your search - new york - did not match any documents. Reset search options” That can’t be...
  6. brit reblogged this from mikehudack and added:
    How to view social results: 1) You’ll see a link at the bottom of results titled “Results from people in your social...
  7. mikehudack reblogged this from gbattle and added:
    Just signed up for...experiment. It doesn’t seem to do anything
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