Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Google Merges Search and Google+ Into Social Media Juggernaut-This is a big, important change

Now we know Google’s master-plan for integrating Google+ ever more deeply into the Google ecosystem: Pour the whole thing into Google search. Starting today, Google+ members, and to a lesser extent others who are signed into Google, will be able to search against both the broader web and their own Google+ social graph. That’s right; Google+ circles, photos, posts and more will be integrated into search in ways other social platforms can only dream about.

Google calls the search update “ “Search plus Your World.” Jack Menzel, product management director of search, explained that now Google+ members will be able to “search across information that is private and only shared to you, not just the public web.”

Google calls this access to “your web.” So instead of all the public information that is already available to everyone searching via Google, so you can see information that you posted into Google’s new social network and on some of Google’s other services like Picasa Web...

I wonder how this will skew the results to those who are tech savvy. The people who are primarily on Google+ right now are early adopters and tech enthusiasts. Will my Mom get search results that are too advanced for her if she's in on of my Google+ circles?

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