Google claims not to take a political stance yet this blog post features a screenshot of President Obama on The Daily Show?
An update to Google Social Search
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Re: An update to Google Social Search
#12A year ago Google promised that social searching twitter back to 2006 via would be possible "soon".
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/replay-it-google-sear...
"For our initial release, you can explore tweets going back to February 11, 2010, and soon you’ll be able to go back as far as the very first tweet on March 21, 2006"
But the search is still limited to 2010 as of February 2011.
I wonder if the reason is technical or "political" ?
Re: An update to Google Social Search
#13I wonder how Greplin feels about this, it's certainly covering some of the same territory that they're in.
Exact my thought too, Greplin seems to be open to public signup yesterday, and it will be really interesting to see which social search will take off. Google seems to provide a superset of what Greplin provides (your own social data plus your social network's data), and Google definitely has the advantage of being a bigger name, which might mitigate some users' concern about privacy or security; on the other hand, Greplin is really focused on this one particular service and employs a really straightforward approach, which might actually be more preferrable to other users. Google's social search might be lost in a whole slew of other services, unless they focus on marketing and education about it.
Re: An update to Google Social Search
#14It's amazing to me how Twitter has become such a valuable and useful source of information compared to Facebook. Especially considering the 140 character limit. So I have no problem with Twitter being incorporated into my search results.
It is because Twitter posts are public, and free for Google to use, unlike Facebook posts.