See How Well Google Knows Your Circle of Friends
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#2Your social circle as determined by Google is currently a blank slate. – excellent.
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#4My "secondary connections" seem to be a bunch of cosmetic companies.
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#5Google doesn't have a lot of content about my friends. In fact, none, other than some names, many of which I don't even recognize.
But, interestingly, I got a 404 when I logged out.
http://www.google.com/s2/u/0null?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.g...
Edit: actually, I can't log out. Fascinating, I know.
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#6Google doesn't have a lot of content about my friends. In fact, none, other than some names, many of which I don't even recognize. But, interestingly, I got a 404 when I logged out. http://www.google.com/s2/u/0null?continue=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.g... Edit: actually, I can't log out. Fascinating, I know.
Yep - logout is broken for me there.
Just go to some other Google site (docs, gmail, maps) and logout from there.
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#7Yeah... I just stumbled on that recently (like 5 minutes before) in a google search was doing. Wild. Too bad google seems to really only know one of my connections and all that they are linked to. Also too bad that that connection is really a weak one to me.
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#8My "secondary connections" seem to be a bunch of cosmetic companies.
Mine are all museums and photography sites. But then, they're all through a single contact, who's a professional photographer.
Guess my friends are tight-lipped with Google.
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#9My problem with the Social Circle stuff is that it apparently never ever removes anyone that it’s pulled in through external services.
People I haven’t followed on Twitter or Flickr in a year still show up in the ‘Direct connections from links that appear on your Google profile’ section.
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#10Not much, apparently.
It knows my Twitter network, of course, and that's helpful for search results (someone I follow on Twitter blogging about some arcane JRuby tidbit I'm searching for is great).
If this is what Google's leaning on for their new social graph stuff, though, they're in trouble: it knew very little about my real-life friends. In other words, the friends that Facebook knows about. You can't glean that from Gmail contacts necessarily, since I don't really use email for that type of correspondence. If they really do want to flesh out a social graph of their own to combat Facebook, they have to roll their own social network. Maybe it's coming, maybe it's not; I just think they're only getting part of the picture right now.