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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. Please no by recoiledsnake · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Make it opt-in instead of opt-out. Please don't junk up my search results.

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    1. Re:Please no by mystikkman · · Score: 5, Insightful

      How is this different from MS integrating IE into Windows to beat Netscape? Google has a monopoly on search and is harming other industries such as social networks, maps and finance sites by integrating them by default into the search, whereas other competitors like Map Quest don't have this chance and are dying off slowly like Netscape did.

  2. This kinda breaks things for me by OS24Ever · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When I'm searching it's because 'my world' doesn't know the answer and I have to go elsewhere. Filtering out people I don't know first makes it harder to find things.

    If I had a google+ account I guess I would care, unless this forces me to create one which means I have an issue.

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  3. 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

  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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  5. Use DuckDuckGo instead by gQuigs · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've pretty much switched to http://duckduckgo.com/

    Check out http://dontbubble.us/ and http://donttrack.us/. This would be an example of bubbling, btw.

    And if you don't find results (I'd say Google has better results about 20-30% of the time) !g brings that search term to Google.

  6. Re:Good job, Google by icebraining · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or you can just click the button they offer that disables the G+ personalization.

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