Comments on: Google Social Search and your neighborhood connections

By: Google Upgrades Social Search with Clearer View of Network Connections « Momentary Zeitgeist

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:14:34 +0000

[...] to posit greater knowledge regarding Google’s ‘social view’. As he puts it in Google Social Search and Your Neighborhood Connections… I think that Social Search is in its nascent stages, and we will continue to see [...]

By: William Hushburn

William Hushburn — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:30:19 +0000

Google has been great in all ways. I'm just so thankful that i was able to live in this era wherein Google exists and people like Eric has been posting relevant things like this.

By: Popularity Matters - Ignore It At Your Own Peril

Popularity Matters - Ignore It At Your Own Peril — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:54:14 +0000

[...] us and our web activity, including user popularity. With the rise in personalized search and social search integration a reality, greater popularity could be a factor for your brand to win the search results [...]

By: The Real-Time Web: Context is King and the URL is Context | Leveraging Ideas

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:03:47 +0000

[...] social search is the first compelling foray I have seen into nailing the “identity” component of this equation. It’s local, as [...]

By: EricFriedman

EricFriedman — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:07:33 +0000

Thanks – glad you stopped by. I think we will see more influences of social networks and content changing search results. It only makes sense that a contoured custom search is made specifically for me – as long as you can turn it off.

By: Akash Sharma

Akash Sharma — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:42:14 +0000

Hi Eric, I was just scrolling the web for a social media post with a different touch, got it here.
I think Google is moving towards the right direction as @Ev had said that twitter n other social sites are not just chatter boxes they offer a flow of real time social information, this step of Google would really plant flags of a totally changed search.

By: EricFriedman

EricFriedman — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:25:19 +0000

I think one the initial backlash dies down the net gain will be strong. I
think since this launched so long ago, and so quietly, perhaps that period
of rebellion is gone and now the innovation and helpfulness of the results
are here to stay.

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:22:53 +0000

good thoughts eric! I've been waiting for someone to write about this. you should check out a jonathan harris project from a while back called Universe: http://universe.daylife.com/ It kind of get into the idea of "galaxies of connections" as you term it but from a news perspective. i like where Google is going with this