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By: Joe Buhler

Joe Buhler — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:55:59 +0000

This goes in the right direction but is still rather hard to use by the mainstream of users. As explained, who will first go to Labs – find that first! – then enable the functionality and also find the social search results there. All not too easy.

Also the results are keywords based. Hotels in Hawaii returns blogposts that mention those words but are not reviews of properties. As always with search the user has to wade through whatever the results are, relevant or not.

But again, a step in the right direction of integrating input from the social graph.

By: Happy Dude » Blog Archive » New Custom Social Search from Google

Happy Dude » Blog Archive » New Custom Social Search from Google — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:52:20 +0000

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By: Mark Seall

Mark Seall — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:36:09 +0000

That’s definitely a big step for search.

I’ve always thought that social selection is particularly relevant for reviews. I always filter TripAdvisor reviews by inferring the type of person writing the review since one persons holiday heaven is holiday hell. Adding some kind of social profiling to review weighting is one of the things I’ve been thinking about for a long time. Ok, that’s not quite the same thing as Google are doing here, but good to see that things are moving in that direction.

Will also be interesting to see what kind of moves this triggers in the SEO industry..

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:04:47 +0000

It’s implemented quite well for an experiment as it’s separated out from the main results. What I would like to know is how they are going to integrate real-time and social results into my main results. I don’t really want three separate queries output on the same results page, but equally I don’t want my results biasing by the people I follow or real-time when I might actually just want relavancy.

It’s going to be a trial and error approach I’d imagine to slowly integrate these new features into the results set, making use of their multi-variate testing tech.

Or maybe they’ll always be separate?

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uberVU - social comments — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:24:36 +0000

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By: RobertKCole

RobertKCole — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:46:52 +0000

Another good video is Matt Cutts explanation of Google Social Search – here is the link: http://bit.ly/4rFAeZ

I agree – this adds an important new dimension in the quest for relevant search results.

The other interesting question is if members of social circles will now suddenly be driven to provide keyword-rich reviews (as they currently do with blog posts) to gain higher Social Search rankings – a whole new SEO discipline may be born.

Wondering if I should start telling my 11-year old daughter that her science essay on Volcanoes had good content and was grammatically correct, but it needed to include a broader and richer selection of keywords…?

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