All of the search engines are rushing to incorporate more social media elements into their interfaces. Examples of this are evident in things like Google and Bing's deals with Twitter and Facebook . You can see it in Yahoo's new Twitter tab for news results . You can see it in Google's Social Search lab . Really you can see it in everyday search results. Do you consider a social presence an important...
They must be busy down at Mountain view. Barely a day seems to go by when they don’t launch something new. I feel like the number of times I write ‘here’s a new service from Google’ has gone off the scale. And we haven’t even talked about Google Wave yet! Well… predictably… here’s a new service [...]
I know that Google likes to cover its butt by placing new tools in Google Labs, then keeping the beta tag for years, but its new Social Search feature has gone AWOL. OK, technically, Google has shut it down until sometime later today or tomorrow: The Google Social Search experiment is temporarily down. We are working on [...]
Over the weekend, I received several emails, noticed dozens of Tweets, saw several forum posts and noticed for myself that Google Social Search experimental search feature went offline. If you have opt in to the Social Search feature at google.com/experimental you will notice an error on your Google searches that reads, “The experiment you’re trying [...] ....
October 26th, Google launched a new labs product called Google Social Search. It is basically the only labs product I left on, by default, for my Google searches - it is that cool. Over the weekend, I like many many...
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Is this really the Google we know? Gmail having problems since the past 7 months, then Google Apps, and now recently the newly announced Google social search to compete with the Microsoft Bing/Facebook/Twitter search deal is also down. Google gave a response with an email to Tech Social news publisher, ...
Sometimes there’s an advantage to calling something “experimental”. Google Social Search , the much heralded new way to combine Google results with data from your social networks, went down today , we reported earlier. Now Google has responded to our inquiry, explaining that the service will be inaccessible until Monday or Tuesday. No reason has been given for the downtime. Google...
Google Social Search has disappeared suddenly! If you had joined the Google Social Search experiment you might now see that the option is gone from the Google search engine. Google just displays... ...
Google Social Search , launched in late October as an experimental way to combine your social networks with Google’s search results, has mysteriously disappeared today. When trying the service , we’re greeted with the message: “The experiment you’re trying to access is no longer available. Go to experiments overview”. Pulling the feature so soon after launch would be...
Google has recently added a new experimental feature that can make search results much more personal and relevant. The new feature called Google Social Search integrates results from your social circle based on your connections, as Google sees them. Read on to learn how doing a social network search with Google Social Search works and how [...]
With Google's Social Search experiment , Bing's integration with Twitter and Yahoo!'s partnership with One Riot , social search clearly has both potential and momentum. But what will social search look like, and will it help us search better? And if it will, how? I've written previously about how social search won't replace traditional search , how social relevancy rank can be used to deliver good...
Do you remember Personas that visualizes the map of your online presence Here is a better solution. From one point of view it s great to have such a useful tool as Google Social Search. A short video about what it is and how it works. Social Search taps into...
Taptu , which already focuses on mobile-friendly search with their iPhone app and mobile interface, has just announced a partnership with real-time search engine OneRiot. The partnership gives Taptu access to OneRiot’s API, which has already been implemented in the mobile search experience. Now mobile searchers have the ability to search and discover trending topics, with real-time results,...
Rupert Murdoch sent a strong signal, in an interview with Sky News Australia, against major search engines saying that they will disallow from indexing his News Corp. websites. As Murdoch put it, “I think we will remove our websites from Google’s search index but that’s when we start charging.” Further added:”The people who simply just pick up [...] » Join our Google...
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