On the official Google Blog Google announced Thursday new updates to Google Social Search. If you are signed in to Google account when doing a search you may now see relevant results from your friends and others you are connected too. The results could be pulled from friends Twitter posts, Youtube, Flickr, their blogs and websites. For example, if you were searching for a restaurant and some of your friends you are connected too have commented some where else about that restaurant you may see their comments or posts inserted into Google's listing results. For stores, this means a another way for shoppers to instantly get word-of-mouth opinions from their friends about the products and services you offer. google states: "Social search results can rank anywhere on the page, and you’ll see who shared the result in the annotation underneath."
Here is Google's overview about the new Social Search features...
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