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What is Google Social Search?

Posted on 16. Nov, 2009 by Arpit.

Google Social Search is an experimental search tool recently introduced by Google. This tools lets you search for relevant public web content from people in your social circle. For example, I searched for “Google Docs” and got the following results from the web contents published by my contacts.

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ITOG Makes Your Opinion Everything

Posted on 22. Feb, 2008 by Kyle Judkins.

I am not one to get too excited about social networking sites, but ITOG comes at social networking from a different angle. They are a self-proclaimed social opinion site. You may ask yourself, “What is a social opinion site?” Well, if you look at their tag line, a social opinion site makes “Your Opinion is Everything.”

The site is focused around letting its users rate all kinds of things from movies to restaurants. These ratings allow the users to find people with interests similar to theirs and engage in discussions about the topics they like. You can also directly compare your ratings to your friends’ and finally prove to your friend that you have better tastes than they do by looking at their rankings.

The possibilities for this site are endless, as the user continues to gain more and more power with each new feature added. I am told that eventually the user will be able to rate almost everything on the site. Once this is the case, your opinion will be more than everything to the site. Let me know what you guys think about the site!

Visit the site here ITOG.

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