Google Launches Social Search Experiment

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Google social search is a new feature that allows you to find relevant information from people in your social network when you do a search. You have to be signed into your Google account for the social search experiment to work. Here is a video that goes over the new Google social search experiment.

If you are searching for a movie review you will find reviews from your friends and contacts in the search results. I am much more likely to take a review from someone I know more seriously than from a stranger. What about you? Do you like this new experiment? Would you trust your friends over a strangers opinion?