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Menlo Park (ip-192.com): Google's Social Search service, which includes public content from users' social networks such as blogs and tweets in search results, is moving to Google.com from the company's Labs site.
Google will let English-language users of its search engine see relevant links to items their social-networking contacts have posted publicly on the Web. Social Search results will also appear in the Google Images engine.
The announcement was made by Google Social Search Technical Lead Maureen Heymans via blog-post. “While we've been enjoying Social Search, we've been hard at work on new features. For example, we've added social to Google Images,” said Heymans.
“Now when you're doing a search on Images, you may start seeing pictures from people in your social circle. These are pictures that your friends and other contacts have published publicly to the web on photo-sharing sites like Picasa Web Albums and Flickr. Just like the other social results, social image results appear under a special heading called Results from your social circle,” so Heymans. “We think there's tremendous potential for social information to improve search, and we're just beginning to scratch the surface. We're leaving a ‘beta’ label on social results because we know there's a lot more we can do.”
Users will have to create their own Google profile to run Social Search, and add their own contacts and bookmarks. Google said that it will add support for other languages soon.
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