I just checked this out yesterday and as I was doing testing on this new Google.com tool I said to myself, “now, this is really cool”. What I am speaking about is Google’s integration of your own social media networks into your personal search results. To get involved in the project sign into Google.com and then enter this URL: http://www.google.com/experimental/index.html select the first experiment at the top of the page called Google Social Search.
Once enrolled you will see a new feature at the top left of every Google.com page. The feature says Web and then a show options + mark. Open the + and you will now see a new left navigation bar that stretches down the page. From here you can search in Google.com sectors such as images, video, news, blogs, updates, books, forums, and even social.
The take away from this new experimental project is that when you yourself are personally involved in social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other platforms, the information you post is now searchable by others in your expanded social network all tied together in one neat interface using Google’s Social Search.
This is a real boon for web exposure and the creation of web authority for business owners and serious entrepreneurs. With some saying that social media is too time consuming to pursue, I say think again look at this new Google experiment which will most likely be the “face” of search to come and rethink your position on social media and social networking sites.
It’s useful being able to discover what my family on? Twitter and Facebook are saying about a topic I am searching for without having to waste my time on either website viewing off topic chat.I love social sites but I really don’t care what you just ate. Only getting what I want from my friends is going to make them more valuable to me and keep me from getting sidetracked when I am trying to get real work done.