Back in October of last year, Google introduced Social Search, an experimental service which compiles information from your contact’s many different social networking sites, and displays them as part of its results. Unfortunately, the service required users to create a Google Account, if they didn’t have one already, and add the different social sites they use such as Twitter, Picasa, Flickr, Blogger, Yelp, and more. The service was apparently a great success as it graduated from Labs.
Well, Google announced on its Social Web Blog that as of today, Social Search will begin using public data from social networking sites connected to Google Buzz. This will make it easier for users to see more results from their social circle when using Google Social Search. The new change began rolling out today and should be complete by the end of this week.
Google Software Engineer Mike Lopyrev explains that users can check the content they’re sharing and who they’re sharing it with by simply “clicking ‘My Social Content’ and ‘My Social Circle’ next to any social search result.”