Google launches search feature social networking      

Posted: 27 October 2009 by Anton Chuiko   |   Views: 312   |   Comments 0   |   Print     |   Discuss in forum
altOn the pages of Google's company blog announced the company announced recently started searching social networking - Google's Social Search. The service provider indicates that if this is not the official function of the Google search engine, but only optional tool offered on the Google Labs experiment.

In our tests, carried out by a new feature to work only in the English version of the browser. 
 To obtain meaningful results, you should have a Google account, in which setting gives you links to well-known social networking sites, so for example, Twitter under option to the public or their own Profile reserved for contacts with friends (Friendfeed).

As the provider, Google's Social Search is also included with its range of users from a list of Gmail's chat, as well as other individuals designated in the address book, Google as friends, family and colleagues.

The document stresses the technical assistance provider, the tool scans only the content available to the public. The help section also know that Google displays search results social networking at the end of the results - unfortunately, in our tests, there was no such thing. To be shown only results in social networking sites, you must pre-select the Social Show Options dialog box. However, in our case appeared only messages from sources reader Google Reader, but there was Twitter status updates.

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