Google Unveils “Search, Plus Your World”

Yesterday, Google released a new feature called “Search, plus Your World,” which integrates personalized features into Google’s standard search engine results pages (SERPs). These bespoke changes to the SERPs are ported from your Google+ page and the information that your Google+ connections have shared with you. These changes will make it easier for users to find and […]

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What Google’s New “Search Plus Your World” Means For Your Online Business

If you have yet to experiment with Google+ for businesses, I recommend you wait no longer. With more and more individuals hopping onto the Google+ bandwagon and the recent announcement of “Search Plus Your World”, logged in Googlers may start seeing (depending on the query) results that are heavily influenced by Google’s social recommendations. This […]

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Sharks Circle Around Google Search+: EPIC Cries Antitrust, Twitter Provides Evidence

Sharks Circle Around Google Search+There’s blood in the water surrounding Google Search+ (what we’re now calling Google Search Plus Your World). The Electronic Privacy Information Center recommends the FTC look at Search+ for possible privacy or antitrust concerns. Meanwhile, Twitter’s General Counsel Alexander Macgillivray provides apparently damning evidence for why Search+ unfairly skews search results towards Google+ content instead of the most relevant results.

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When I Search Your Name, I’m Not Looking For Your Google+ Profile

Google Search Plus Your World Twitter Wikipedia LogoWhat most alarms me about today’s “Google Search Plus Your World” announcement is how it will distort name searches. When I Google someone’s name, I’m typically looking for a Wikipedia entry, their Twitter account, a personal website, or an author page on their blog. Today, Google Search handles this well, often returning these as the top results. But *thanks* to Search Plus Your World, soon I’ll see Google+ profiles more prominently even though they’re rarely what I’m looking for.

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