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Google Merges Google+ Into Search

Posted by samzenpus on from the relating-to-related-links dept.

SharkLaser writes "Google is today launching an update to their search engine. This update is intended to bring you personalized search results based on your Google+ friends, sharing, pictures and likes. They're calling it 'Search plus Your World,' and the update is going to automatically personalize all search results to a greater degree than before. These personalized matches will appear along your normal search results. For example, if you are searching for images of babies, Google will now personalize your search results and give high preference to baby photos from your Google+ circles. TechCrunch is speculating that over time they will also start adding search results from all the other Google services, including Google Docs, Gmail, Contacts, Music, Voice, wallet and so on. Today's launch also uses Google+ data for another purpose: helping you search for information about people on Google+. For example, if you are searching Google for 'music,' Google will now display relevant people and pages from Google+, like Britney Spears, Alicia Keys and Snoop Dogg." Update: 01/10 18:40 GMT by S : Changed the summary to reflect that the idea of adding search results from other services was speculation from TechCrunch, and not something Google said.

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  1. Terminator Reference by MightyYar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm pretty sure that Google is Skynet, but instead of nuking us it will just embarrass us all to death once it achieve sentience.

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  2. YESSSSS!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I AM SO EXCITED! LOL! I HAVE BEEN WAITING 4 THIS DAY FOR LIKE 4EVER! I CAN'T WAIT TO TELL MY BFFS THAT THEY CAN SEARCH AND B ON SOSHUL NETWORK TOO. I CN GT LADY GAGA & SNOOKI UPDATES.

    NOW IF I CN JUST GET MY AOL MAIL THEIR 2, IT WULD BE SOOOOOOOOO COOL

  3. Re:Please no by bhcompy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft doesn't even need to do anything but stick with what they're doing at this point for Bing to grow. Google is junking up the search results, as you would say, more and more with each passing month

  4. what about when I search for porn? by larry+bagina · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will it show my friends dick pics? :(

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    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.

    1. Re:what about when I search for porn? by SpinyNorman · · Score: 3, Funny

      No - it'll show the porn your friends and family like.

      Imagine goatse with a google annotation "your dad liked this".

      Or worse.