Google Launches Personal Content Search Feature

Search feature in Google search engine now produces more personal data. In addition to the regular search results, Google now also display personal information relating to our profile on Google+. Our friend’s post, photo, profile in Google+ will now be a reference for search results in Google Search. The result will be displayed on the first page of search. Sign in to your Google+ is absolutely necessary for Google enable to display this search.

There are three new features related to Google’s search results. The first is Personal Results; it’s where we can find photos and posts owned by people in the Google+ circle that we have. Second is the appearance of both Profiles in “auto complete search” and “search results” to find people who we want. The last is “People” and “Pages” that will appear related to the topic or area of ​​interest.

These new feature become the continuity for the new direction of Google search that is more and more social. Nowadays, social networking function may have started to replace the SEO for top ranking. Moreover, this is Google’s effort to promote Google+ rivalling other social networking platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Until the end of 2011, Google+ has 62 million users, although there is no data on how many people use it regularly.

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Google Kembangkan Fitur Pencarian Konten Personal

Pencarian di mesin pencari Google semakin menghasilkan data yang personal. Selain hasil pencarian yang biasa, sekarang Google juga menampilkan informasi personal yang berkaitan dengan profil kita di Google+. Post, photo, profil teman-teman kita yang ada di Google+ sekarang akan menjadi rujukan bagi hasil pencarian Google Search. Hasilnya bakal ditampilkan di halaman pertama pencarian. Sign in ke akun Google+ mutlak diperlukan bagi Google untuk menampilkan pencarian ini.

Secara garis besar, ada tiga fitur baru yang berkaitan dengan hasil pencarian Google. Pertama adalah Personal Results, di mana kita bisa menemukan foto dan post yang dimiliki oleh orang-orang di lingkaran Google+ yang kita miliki. Kedua adalah penampilan Profiles di Search baik secara autocomplete maupun hasil pencarian untuk menemukan orang-orang yang kita inginkan, dan yang terakhir adalah People and Pages yang akan muncul berkaitan dengan topik atau area minat yang dicari.

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Google+ circles over Facebook, Twitter, and Skype

Let’s talk about the hottest thing on the Internet in the last few days and that is Google+. Google+ looks like the culmination of all the social network experiments that Google has been throwing out so far in the last several years. The network is only a few days old yet it already feels like it’s been around for a long time, and streams of posts have been flowing almost endlessly with hardly a slow down.

When you join Google+, you’re asked to create circles based on your relationship with the people listed on your screen. Now these circles are for you and you alone. None of the people listed will know what circle you’ve put them into and who their fellow circle members are. All they know is you’re following them.

This one-way relationship is what made Twitter popular and preferred by those who shun Facebook’s approach of mutual friendship. On Facebook, anyone who wants to consider you a friend has to be approved and while many may consider this as not that big of a deal, a lot of people are uncomfortable with this “forced” friendship. Continue reading Google+ circles over Facebook, Twitter, and Skype

Cara Mengirimkan Undangan Google+ Tanpa Undangan Sebenarnya

Upaya terbaru Google untuk menjadi lebih sosial dengan Google+ tampaknya sangat berkesan bagi early adopters ditandakan oleh berbagai ulasan dan tanggapan positif atas layanan ini.

Bagi mereka yang belum mendapatkan undangan dan menunggu untuk diundang, sayangnya undangan Google+ ditangguhkan kemarin siang karena permintaan yang membludak. Sepertinya ini menjadi cara khas Google dalam menciptakan, memelihara, dan memperpanjang kehebohan setelah peluncuran produk mereka, karena jika ada perusahaan yang sangat mahir tentang scaling, itu adalah Google.

Walau begitu, masih ada cara untuk mendapatkan undangan Google+ tanpa ‘benar-benar diundang’, yaitu melalui email.

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