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.

Post from: Social Media Vision

Google Social Search – Your Thoughts?