DISQUS

olbekson · 1 month ago

Google is already showing a lot of twitter updates in search results

Jeff Korhan · 1 month ago

We knew this was coming. The Humanized Web has arrived!

gabriel1970 · 1 month ago

This is very cool - I just added all of my social network profiles to my google profile last week, and was wondering why they hadn't improved upon Friendfeed and integrated with Orkut.

ConnorJack · 1 month ago

Cool!

brian fanslau · 1 month ago

Cool indeed. This will lead to a one place integration in the future. a Standard if you will in online I.D. so people can be represented online and searched accordingly. go ahead and check it out---Google my name :)

Skankazoid.com · 1 month ago

Very Cool

iTbay · 1 month ago

lol . just when bing was in the lead today.

macewan · 1 month ago

They still refer to it as Bing? Woulda thought they'd have renamed it by now. ;-)

Hugh Briss · 1 month ago

Unless Google strikes a deal with Twitter I'd guess that Twitter will tell them to stop including their results until they pay like Bing.

Marat · 1 month ago

Google already has a twitter agreement, so it's covered.

Hugh Briss · 1 month ago

I guess you didn't notice my second comment that I posted a couple minutes after my first. ;)

Hugh Briss · 1 month ago

I see that Google has indeed reached an agreement with Twitter.

Ryan Willis · 1 month ago

Another one bites the dust!

Tutti · 1 month ago

There are plenty of ways you can hurt a man
And bring him to the ground
You can beat him
You can cheat him
You can treat him bad and leave him
When he's down
But I'm ready, yes I'm ready for you
I'm standing on my own two feet
Out of the doorway the bullets rip
Repeating the sound of the beat

couchsurfingori · 1 month ago

That's crazy! This is going to change search engines forever... and the SEO / marketing uses are kind of mind blowing. I'm sure there's already people trying to figure out how to leverage that. I guess this should silence all the people who say that Twitter's going nowhere :)

Aaron Baer · 1 month ago

Does this mean that Google will be able to mine all facebook users photos for Google Images like Facebook does for their ads?

So many questions - but still so FREAKING AWESOME

macewan · 1 month ago

With this and Wave Google is quickly becoming the new Facebook.

Mondi · 1 month ago

I really, realllllly hope not. :-/

Trey Copeland · 1 month ago

Awesome!

Daisy O · 1 month ago

oh, sounds vair cool (:

BlogCoach · 1 month ago

Interesting to see where they are going with this - will depend on the integration as ever. There's been the basic "recent posts" or news at the bottom of page 1 SERPS for a while without really much traction. Add this to the top as they do with Google Local and that will have a real impact!

aoutt · 1 month ago

Quite scary! This is good news for stalkers everywhere.

angela albright · 1 month ago

awesome news....increases importance of having more social profiles!

Andreas · 1 month ago

real-time search (twitter) and social stream search (facebook) is already available for google, bing and yahoo search by using the browser app kikin (kikin.com).

does anybody know a link to a video of the google social search demo?

Parkbench · 1 month ago

Would there be a choice of if you want your profile to appear in search results or not?

V.C · 1 month ago

That's a great news in this week.
Google is becoming larger and larger and infinite.

sagarmatha · 1 month ago

I think the communication revolution revolving every minute. Let us enjoy the the revolution!

zedomax · 1 month ago

Will have to see, does this mean Twitter will show up on search results?

Mandy Corvo · 1 month ago

More ways to find information you probably don't always want to be seen by other people.

Network Support · 1 month ago

Yep, there will eventually be uncontrollable backlash from all of this; even though its cool technology.

Mandy Corvo · 1 month ago

More ways to find information you probably don't always want to be seen by other people.

materiel informatique · 1 month ago

I've been getting Google Alerts for some Tweets for a while now, so it's not THAT shocking, but, yeah, the whole "right after Microsoft" thing is kind of awkward.

davereinhardt · 1 month ago

It's not a web-wide social search: "pulled from social networks connected to your Google Profile". So it's search among your own friends on your social networks. It's an aggregated search which is nice enough, but it's not going to help me find interesting stuff on the social web to do with xyz topic of interest. It's unlike Google to be unambitious, I hope this is just the first step of social search.

Marcozna · 1 month ago

Was excited at the idea but as I read on my excitement waned. Am not connecting my Google profile to all these other sites. Rather just search in twitter or search in facebook.

Socially Charged · 1 month ago

It only makes sense. Ideally, social media results would carry a 25% weight in search engines to find highly relevant network relationships that could produce more personally valuable leads in the users search. It would be an extremely powerful feature to be able search for a product or service, and see in the SERPs that a relationship in your social network has a personal connection to that service or product as a fan, or user of the item. That gives the searcher actionable information - you could contact the person in your social network and ask for their insight before you ever try the service or product.

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Shaun Dunne · 1 month ago

Bing still has some very good features. I had to work hard to force myself to stop using google for search for about a week, now its just natural to use bing. Find some things on Bing just simply better.

Winziph · 1 month ago

sounds exciting ^__^

Damian Saunders · 1 month ago

Sounds great, the only constant I seem to experience is that every day there's an new Social Media app for this or that and it's getting hard to keep track of everything I've signed up for.
Be nice if there was some way to find out :-)

jamesoh2003 · 1 month ago

Thanks for your info

greenie2600 · 1 month ago

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Thay · 1 month ago

I'm scared of Google. o__O

Andrew Johnson · 1 month ago

So, can I conclude that we need as much as we can more friends in the social networks?

Andrew Johnson · 1 month ago

So, can I conclude that we need as much as we can get more and more friends in the social networks?

Michael Cohen · 1 month ago

begin the push of getting more fans/friends for your Website on Facebook for instant first page results!

I kid, but honestly if I'm connected to a blog via Facebook I care enough about their opinion that I'd love to see their posts/comments/tweets come up when I make a related search... likewise these companies know that and will be working to get people connected with Google... sounds like an epic win for Google/Blogs to get people to be cogs in their machine

donald · 1 month ago

So let me get this straight: Google is content with having this labeled "The Google SS" ??
Seems to me there was another group labeled the "SS" from Germany . . . They had a lot to do with information as well, if memory serves.

dj adelaide · 1 month ago

interesting, i guess when it comes to trust, the normal google search just isn't enough with people using SEO to game the system and dodgey products and services being sold in adwords, it's becoming increasingly necessary to find the market mavens who's opinion you can rely on

www.myegytube.com · 1 month ago

This is funny. :)

maxweaver · 1 month ago

Yeh thats great, but when are they going to get around to allowing profiles to come up in regular Google Search. Apparently this has been working for Americans for months but the rest of the world is still in the dark. Why the uneven bias Google?

Ian Hendry · 1 month ago

Powerful stuff indeed, not least of all because more and more people are using the ability to tap into the knowledge of their network BEFORE they go and so the search on traditional search engines like Bing and Google. Want to know where best to have an impromptu meeting in London? Want a recommendation for a good printer? Ask your Twitter contacts, get a well qualified answer with a specific recommendation attached. Results of that quality are nigh on impossible to extract from Google and Bing.

I've blogged on the threat Twitter and other social networks pose to Google and Bing here:

Why "Real Time" Search misses the point of what makes social media powerful http://bit.ly/3IdS7z

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

Mark S. Queen · 1 month ago

This doesn't creep anyone out? Think of the "stuff" you put out there . . . now imagine your HR Department using it at your next scheduled review, or imagine it being used in your next interview. That and the idea that there is no Opt-Out feature set's off all my personal liberty bells! Freedom includes freedom "from" forced inclusion!