Google launches social search

Google launches social search

Well it's time, finally ... a clever personal search function, thanks to Google.

Hitwise reported that Facebook beat Google as the most-visited U.S. Web site for the week ending March 13, 2010. (Let us not be too deeply into these statistics, because many variables are unknown). One thing is not debatable. Web users are interested in the fact that their family members, staff, and friends say the Internet and looking for a more personalized web experience. This is what Google hopes to provide with the launch of social search.

What is the Google of social search?

People post a lot of information on the Internet and make it publicly available. These include blogs, Tweets, pictures, etc. Using Google, social search, when you do a keyword search results will show your friends, family and anyone else you designate has already made available on some sites on the topic. For example, when searching for "universal health coverage, you will see that your contact entries with pictures, videos, Tweets, RSS-news and blogs. This information is displayed in the bottom of the page after the regularly indexed sites. According to Matt Cutts, these results only appear when the Google algorithm determines that it will improve the search. Thus, one can search to see what information can be found on the Web and among the wider your social circle.

How do you subscribe to Google social search?

To get started, you need an account Gmail. Contacts added to Gmail chat list or their friends, relatives and colleagues of contacts will automatically become part of your social circle. If you have a Google Talk account that the list of chats and thrown into the mix. Anyone you follow or subscribe to certain sites of social and be part of your circle. How do I add friends, the circle will widen to the association (friends of friends, followers of followers on Twitter, etc.). From there, all you need to do is login to Google and search. Results appear in the bottom of the page. (This may take several weeks to contact the content appears in the results).

Social search and SEO

Become a part of the social circle of someone and your blog, images and Tweets appear in search results. I'm sure you can see the possibilities there. As mentioned above, for a start, register for an account Gmail, Google to create a profile and then add their own social context of the media. If you have not already, register for social sites like Twitter, Flickr, and FriendFeed, and then add these links to your profile.

When someone of your social circle searches, Google pulls publicly available content from your profile options (blogs , Flickr, Twitter, etc.) is what appears in search results on the contacts. Thus, it is important to include these links in your profile, and regularly after the quality and optimize content. From there, you want to build contacts and increase social subscribers / followers. Get creative with your email newsletters, too, because Gmail is part of the social circle.

of course, will be tweaks and technical issues, while social search for perfection, but you can get a jump on the competition by creating a profile and connections. Check it out today! You can read about it in the article on Google