Being part of something new and experimental can be fun! Here's an opportunity to participate with some of the most creative people online, the Google team.
I thought it was great too that the example in their demo video used a search for New Zealand as an example.
Check it all out over at Google.
There's so much more under the engine! Great apps I use, especially while traveling. because I wear different hats and work on three or more computers in different offices in Auckland, I can link all my bookmarks, notes, contacts, etc, via Google.
No, I do not own stock in the company, but when I find tools that help me work better and more easily, I'll gladly share them with my friends.
Sign in to Google and do a search. If there's relevant web content written by
people in your social circle, it will automatically show up at the bottom of your search results under a section called "Results from people in your social circle."To see even more social content you can click the "Show options" link at the top of the results page and then click on the "Social" link.
What is your social circle? It's a combination of your Gmail chat buddies, your Gmail contacts friends, family and co-worker groups, and people you're publicly connected to on other social sites (such as Twitter and FriendFeed). Learn more about social search.
This experiment is only available for searches from the google.com domain,
and your interface language must be set to English.
With Social Search, you'll be able to more easily find relevant public content from your social circle, such as the following:
- Websites, blogs, public profiles, and other content linked from your friends' Google profiles.
- Web content, such as status updates, tweets, and reviews, from social services that your friends have listed in their Google profiles.
- Relevant articles from your Google Reader subscriptions.
Watch a video explanation of social circles
Expand your social circle to improve your social search results.
You can improve your social search results by expanding your social circle and encouraging your friends to publish content online. Expand your social circle by doing the following:
- Create a Google profile.
- Add content to your Google profile, including links to other social services you use.
- Subscribe to your friends' content in Google Reader.
- Add people you know to your network of contacts in the various social services you use.
- Tell your friends to start tweeting, blogging, and share more web content.
Create a Google profile to improve how you appear in other people's social search results.
Make yourself more discoverable in social search results by creating a Google profile. Then do the following:
- Add links to content you want to share, such as your blog or YouTube channel.
- Publish additional web content and make sure it's all linked to your Google profile.
My iGoogle homepage has the following header across the top. My dad's is equally personalised to suit him. I think it was Mastiffs at last glance.
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