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Today I just stumbled across Google’s Social Search feature, and I have to say that I love it.
This may be one of the few things that Google sorta does right with my ‘social circle’ as they call it. So far it’s only limited to my Twitter followers as far as content from friends is, but it also included content from my Reader subscriptions.
I’d like to see Facebook integration in there because the information from my friends there is far more content and context-rich than Twitter. I also think that it’s a little strange that no YouTube content made it’s way into the results, I have several friends on my YouTube account and even more subscriptions, and I know there were YouTube videos from those sources that would have fit. Google should also include content from my own websites (it lists them all from my Google profile as my ‘social content’).
Of course I believe they will get to all of this (at least I sure hope they do), since I’m sure that this is a relatively new product, as I’ve only just now noticed it and I do at least 6-7 Google searches a day. I don’t much care what privacy advocates say, I want Google to use all the information it can gather about me to provide me with better content and service, and this is definitely a step in the right direction.