BIG NEWS: Google Search Engine Results Now Provides Social Network Updates
Google added two new links for “My social circle” and “My social content” that permit Social Networking searches! This blending of the most popular search engine in the US with social networking is getting more interesting since “Google is striking real-time deals with both Facebook and MySpace. Updates from public pages on Facebook will appear in Google real-time search, as will any publicly posted comments on MySpace.” In the future hundreds of millions of friends on Facebook and MySpace will use Google to search.
Google “Show Options”
Many people may not have noticed that when you do a Google Search the results displays “Show options” which includes the following:
So whenever you do a Google search you can click on “>Any time, Latest” and you will find information that just happened seconds before. This service now permits real time searching rather than purely historical.
Twitter on Google and Bing
To make things a little more interesting Google just announced that it will add live results from Twitter searches. However Bing already has an early version http://www.bing.com/twitter. With the tremendous growth of Social Networking now blending into search engines seems logical and inevitable. Even though Google gives pointers on how to protect oneself with these new social network searches, Google still keeps searches for 18 months. It makes one wonder how private everyone’s information really is on Social Networks or Google.
Peter,
This is fascinating - and a little scary. Do you see any new privacy laws coming out of this type of thing? Or will it be a "know-before-you-post" situation? VERY interesting!
Best,
Lisa
Lisa,
Probably too soon to know any new laws, but if there is a crisis probably some laws will be enacted...or a Judge may create some laws.
Peter