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googletweetToday, Google announced plans to index the twitter streams of your friends and other social media and include the results in your searches. This amazing new development is sure to change SEO and personalize your SERPS.

“There is a very fundamental shift going on from the information Web to the social Web.” It’s a shift that Google has been participating in for several years…”, says Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Google labs has announced a new “experiment” to implement its new social media search a strategy.  As Google explains:

More easily find relevant blogs, reviews and other public content from your social circle.

Sign in to Google and do a search. If there’s relevant web content written by people in your social circle, it will automatically show up at the bottom of your search results under a section called “Results from people in your social circle.”

To see even more social content you can click the “Show options” link at the top of the results page and then click on the “Social” link.

What is your social circle? It’s a combination of your Gmail chat buddies, your Gmail contacts friends, family and co-worker groups, and people you’re publicly connected to on other social sites (such as Twitter and FriendFeed).

You can be a part of this experiment by visiting Google labs and reading more about Google’s social media search strategy.

How do you think Google’s new strategy will change the way businesses use search engines?

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  • jeffreybalhadeff

    There is a lot of functionality that can be had, particularly when it comes to doing research on the web, that is already built into Google and that few people take the time to study and learn. This of course opens a huge opportunity to finding information that you competition does not know is there.

    For example, a company can do a review their own products from the Google Search Bar and find everything that people have said about it on Twitter. Or on their competitions products. And this isn't just limited to your “friends” but to every Tweet that has ever been indexed.

    You can then use Google's advance search techniques to further slide and dice these results, in a way that can yield information that is a lot more valuable, I think, than just thinking of SEO.

  • rosenbaum

    You're 100% right Jeffrey! Then combine the results into an RSS feed and serve it up on your cell phone. Never miss a thing. Thanks for the comments.

  • jeffreybalhadeff

    There is a lot of functionality that can be had, particularly when it comes to doing research on the web, that is already built into Google and that few people take the time to study and learn. This of course opens a huge opportunity to finding information that your competition does not know is there.

    For example, a company can do a review their own products from the Google Search Bar and find everything that people have said about it on Twitter. Or on their competition's products. And this isn't just limited to your “friends” but to every Tweet that has ever been indexed.

    You can then use Google's advance search techniques to further slide and dice these results, in a way that can yield information that is a lot more valuable, I think, than just thinking of SEO.

  • http://SteveRosenbaum.com Steve Rosenbaum

    You're 100% right Jeffrey! Then combine the results into an RSS feed and serve it up on your cell phone. Never miss a thing. Thanks for the comments.

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