Google Social Search Goes Public Beta; Will Norris Joins Social Web Team

Google is in a social mood, announcing the public beta release of its Social Search and adding programmer and open-standards guru Will Norris to its Social Web team.

The search-engine giant released Social Search on an experimental basis last year, allowing users to see content from their friends and contacts alongside the content typically uncovered by the search engine.


Maureen Heymans
, technical lead for Social Search, and Terran Melconian, technical lead for Social Image Search, posted on the Google Blog:

While we’ve been enjoying Social Search (and having babies), we’ve been hard at work on new features.

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