An update to Google Social Search

Today were doing a little bit more to bring you all the goodness of Google, plus the opinions of the people you care about. As always, we want to help you moncler brown angers fur hood quilted jacket find the most relevant answers among the billions of interconnected pages on the web. But relevance isnt just about pagesit also about relationships. That why we introduced Google Social Search in 2009, and why weve made a number of improvements since then. Today were taking another step forwardenabling you to get even more information from the people that matter to you, whether theyre publishing on YouTube, Flickr or their own blog or website.First, social search results will now be mixed throughout your results based on their relevance (in the past they only appeared at the bottom). This means youll start seeing more from people like co-workers and friends, with annotations below the results theyve shared or created. So if youre thinking about climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and your colleague Matt has written a blog post about his own experience, then well bump up that post with a note and a picture:Social search results can rank anywhere on the page, and youll see who shared the result in the annotation underneathSecond, weve made Social Search more comprehensive by adding notes for links people have shared on Twitter and other sites. In the past, wed show you results people created and linked through their Google profiles. moncler brown angers fur hood quilted jacket new Now, if someone youre connected to has publicly shared a link, we may show that link in your results with a clear annotation (which is visible only to you, and only when youre signed in). For example, if youre looking for a video of President Obama on The Daily Show” and your friend Nundu tweeted the video, that result might show up higher in your results and youll see a note with a picture of Nundu:Now Social Search includes links people share on Twitter and other servicesThird, weve given you more control over how you connect accounts, and made connecting accounts more convenient. You can still connect accounts publicly on your Google profile, but now weve added a new option to connect accounts privately in your Google Account. (After all, you may not want everyone to know youre @spongebobsuperfan on Twitter.) In addition, if our algorithms find a public account that might be yours (for example, because the usernames are the same), we may invite you to connect your accounts right on the search results page and in your Google Account settings:The new setting enables you to choose whether or not to show your connected accounts publicly on your Google profileFor an overview of Google Social Search and our new features, check out the explanatory video:As always, youll only get social search results when you choose to log in to your Google moncler black angers fur hood quilted jacket Account. Were starting to roll out the updates today on Google.com in English only and youll see them appear in the coming week. With these changes, we want to help you find the most relevant information possible, personalized to your interests and the people you care about. To learn more, check out our help center.Posted by Mike Cassidy, Product Management Director, and Matthew Kulick, Product Manager