Google Social Search - Your Thoughts?

Posted by Garrett Pierson in November 17th, 2009

Last month and the last few weeks their has been some what of a social search launched the social uprising! First off Microsoft’s Bing announced search deals with Twitter and Facebook and, at the Web 2.0 Summit, launched its Twitter integration. Almost immediately though, Google fired back, completing its own deal with Twitter and, perhaps more importantly, announcing a new feature: Social Search.

Google announced this new feature in their recent blog post called Introducing Google Social Search: I finally found my friend’s New York blog!

Now we all knew this was coming it was just a matter of time. Here is what Google themselves had to say about it:

“Your friends and contacts are a key part of your life online. Most people on the web today make social connections and publish web content in many different ways, including blogs, status updates and tweets. This translates to a public social web of content that has special relevance to each person. Unfortunately, that information isn’t always very easy to find in one simple place. That’s why today we’re rolling out a new experiment on Google Labs called Google Social Search that helps you find more relevant public content from your broader social circle.”

I am writing this blog post because I would like to get your thoughts on Google Social Search. Of course, how can I ask for your feedback, unless I give you my own.

I think the announcement if very interesting although I think they are late to the game, meaning I don’t think they are working fast enough (that is my impatient side talking). I still think it has a ways to go, but i don’t believe it can be ignored. I am currently a Google Wave beta tester and I think for sure they are going to integrate it into the new Google Social Search.

So essentially those are my initial thoughts. I wanted to get your thoughts on the subject! So please comment below and tell the world what you think of the new Google Social Search.

Here’s a video demo below of social search from Google:

UPDATE: Google says social search will be down until early next week. No reason has been given.

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yourseomentor (Garrett Pierson) Said in November 25th, 2009 @1:22 pm

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benwfox (Red Cube Marketing) Said in November 26th, 2009 @8:37 am

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bethcharette

Said in January 28th, 2010 @8:08 am

You know, a lot of the social programs and SEO advice, and blog tips seemed a little pointless to me because the people priming those blogs were basically wanting to help others make their blogs attractive. But, that didn’t seem to be translating into online income for anyone I knew. One fellow got up to 100,000 unique visits per month on his blog and was only making $200 per month.

So, when I see something like Google’s Social Search I would have said to myself, “Well so what?”

In other words, it’s all well and good to have a way of contacting folks, of having a nice, or having lots of friends online, but first of all people need to be making a living.

However, my opinion changed in 2009. My sis, Sherry, got a position as an online affiliate for Linda Christas College, an online college/academy. It’s an especially good opportunity because for each enrolled student, the affiliate (They don’t call them affiliates. My sis is a recruiter) receives approximately a $500 stipend. For each student who returns the following year for a full curriculum, the recruiter receives $1,000. It’s a great program, and is replacing a lot of the advertising and recruiting budgets of traditional colleges. And, as online degrees become more accepted than traditional beer and football degrees (that’s happening already with employers, since online degree holders are maturer and proven self starters), online colleges can only increase in terms of enrollments, and therefore the college recruiting end of things will improve also. It’s one of those things whereby today online recruiters are hard to find. In five years, people will be begging for the positions, and those who have already proven themselves to be reliable (like my sister), will have secured the jobs.

My sister made just over $61,000 this year working totally online as a recruiter for Linda Christas, so if I were anyone needing or wanting an online job, I would check into that. As it is, I am married to a computer genius, so I spend my day doing other things. The trick is to find a guy like this that you can actually love. Good luck with that. I found a rare fellow who knows computers, but also knows how to share a bottle of wine at dusk in a mountain cabin.

All she did to get the job with Linda Christas was contact them. They provided the training free of charge.

But, I thought with how hard you guys try, one or more of you would like to contact Linda Christas. They don’t charge anything to get you started, and the payoff if you want to use a blog for recruiting students is evidently very good.

Beth

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