{"id":2752,"date":"2010-01-22T19:39:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandrosalsi.com\/blog\/?p=2752"},"modified":"2010-01-22T19:39:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-23T00:39:37","slug":"google-social-search-tips-and-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/google-social-search-tips-and-tutorials\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Social Search: tips and tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you are signed into your Google account, <strong>Google Social Search<\/strong> will help you find relevant information from people in your social circle (i.e.: friends and acquaintances).<\/p>\n<p>For example if you are searching for a Mexican restaurant nearby then if Patty &#8211; hi Patty\u00c2\u00a0 we all know you like food \ud83d\ude42 &#8211; has left a review somewhere on the web about a particular Mexican restaurant in Vancouver then it will appear more prominently in the search results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can join the experiment here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/experimental\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/experimental\/<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can watch a video by <span>Maureen that demonstrates the features of Google Social Search in plain english. Awesome video by-the-way Maureen \ud83d\ude42<\/span><\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZqWJxgp-_mU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"295\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ZqWJxgp-_mU&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;special&#8221; results will show up at the bottom of the page in an area called &#8220;Results from people in your social circle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To filter your results to ONLY see comments from your circle of trust at the top of your search result page:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click on &#8220;Show Options&#8221; to open the Options Panel<\/li>\n<li>Click on &#8220;Social&#8221; and you are done:)<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t want to see the social results you either sign out from your Google account or leave the experiment<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your social circle is made of people in your Gmail contact list, people you follow on twitter and (not so surprisingly) people you are connected with in FriendFeed.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a very useful feature as I tend to trust my friends opinion more so than the general public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you are signed into your Google account, Google Social Search will help you find relevant information from people in your social circle (i.e.: friends and acquaintances). For example if you are searching for a Mexican restaurant nearby then if Patty &#8211; hi Patty\u00c2\u00a0 we all know you like food \ud83d\ude42 &#8211; has left a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/google-social-search-tips-and-tutorials\/\" class=\"more-link\">Leggi tutto<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Google Social Search: tips and tutorials&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[2836,2837,2838,8,277,2839,2840,691,2841,556,2269,2842,2843,2087,912,1851,2410],"class_list":["post-2752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media","tag-acquaintances","tag-contact-list","tag-friends","tag-google","tag-google-search","tag-heymans","tag-options-panel","tag-people","tag-plain-english","tag-search-result","tag-search-results","tag-search-tips","tag-social-circle","tag-social-search","tag-twitter","tag-vancouver","tag-www-google","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}