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Search Results Based on Your Social Network
A new company, Delver, is offering a new take on web searching that plans to make your social network a part of the equation. "Liad Agmon, CEO of Delver, says that the site connects information about a user's social network with Web search results, "so you are searching the Web through the prism of your social graph." He explains that a person begins a search at Delver by typing in her name. Delver then crawls social-networking websites for widely available data about the user--such as a public LinkedIn profile--and builds a network of associated institutions and individuals based on that information. When the user enters a search query, results related to, produced by, or tagged by members of her social network are given priority. Lower down are results from people implicitly connected to the user, such as those relating to friends of friends, or people who attended the same college as the user. Finally, there may be some general results from the Web at the bottom."
"Sorry, I can't friend you, you'll screw up my search results"
So Google doesn't invade your privacy enough?
I look forward to seeing what results it gives to "Jack Thompson -> animal porn" once it gets hacked/spammed, though.
That would be cool if they used your friends and such to suggest you new people to become friends with, à la Last.fm, with people instead of music.
Well to LastNig.ht. According to your Facebook profile, you recently "hooked up" with Sally, Michelle and Brandy. LastNig.ht BETA suggests you to try to hook up with the following people : Stacy. Pam. Jeff.
You just got troll'd!
I prefer 'nano-American.'
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia