Google social search goes global
Posted on the 24th May 2011
I don’t know how many of you have been following the whole Google social search story but it has been worthy of almost soap-opera treatment. Facebook hired a PR company to push negative stories about Social Search in the press. Facebook claims that Google’s practices raise “serious privacy concerns,” and it’s unhappy with the fact that Google can use Facebook data for its service without Facebook’s permission. It’s noticeable that in Google’s latest blog post about Social Search, Twitter is mentioned three times while Facebook is nowhere to be seen as Google thumbs it’s nose at the social network giant. And now Social Search should be available in 19 languages with more languages on the way. Read more