Google Makes Social Search Available in Beta

Sometime last year, Google rolled out its social search experiment with the aim of making search, well, more social. No, specifically to make relevant web content available of Google search results. By relevant Google means contents from your friends and contacts. So, today after getting good feedback from those who tried out the feature, Google has just released it in beta available to everyone.

But in addition to providing contents published by your friends or online contacts as additional search results Google has also added the social search feature to Google Images. So when you do your search on Google Images you will also see photos published online from your social circles on either Picasa Web Albums, Flickr or other photo-sharing sites. Social search results will be displayed under the heading “Results from your social circle.”

Now, when Google displays these social search results you can see two links labeled “my social circle” and “my social content.”  The second option lists public pages that might appear in other people’s social results. It’s Google’s way of helping you build your social circle as well as connect you to the contents published by people in your social circle.

The social search features works best if you’re signed in to your Google account and have a live Google Profile.

source :-http://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-makes-social-search-available-in-beta/16831/

YouTube, Google, Facebook, Sex Top Kids’ Searches

Forget about the recent reports on most-searched terms and Twitter trending topics. As Symantec just released a more controversial top searches report for 2009. And this time while YouTube, Google and Facebook are the most-searched topics among teens, and so is Sex.


The report, top 100 favorite search terms was based on the search tracking done by Symantec’s OnlineFamily.Norton service. Respondents were children 18 years old and under. The study was part the groups’ assistance to parents in monitoring their children’s online searches.

In both boys and girls category “sex” emerged on top of the list at no. 4 and no. 4 respectively. Among the top searches made by boys are related to social networking sites, shopping sites and porn. While for girls, searches were either music, TV shows, movies and celebrities.

Going into specific age groupings further, the study found out that kids seven and under searched more about video games while older boys did music related searches.

So, if your boys and girls are not frequenting Facebook and YouTube, they are either searching for other sites related to sex and porn. How comforting, NOT!





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