Ever since Google Social Search was launched, I’ve been trying my best to like it, to use it and possibly make it a habit. But looks like its more a nuisance than anything else, if at all.
But honestly, the thing is pretty interesting, enough to get a Google lover excited. And it does to some level, even though quite not there, and in a wrong direction. Lets jump in.

Google Social Search is a new value addition to Google search, that could transform the way information reaches you. I can think of 100 possible ways to think why this is important, but lets not get in to it. Being a Google lover, the Google search box is the most used tool in my daily web experience, and I have enough convincing reasons to believe that there are quite a lot of similar thinking people out there. I trust Google for the information it provides me, I trust their algorithms and I trust their results. They have never been misleading, except a few times, which is ignorable. But this time around, Google has gone truly overboard with their decision to go social.

Why I wouldn’t want to trust Google Social Search

1. I trust Google’s algorithm, and now I see we have it manipulated.

Not technically though, but it shows in the results. For years Google have been giving me excellent search results, and I’d expect them to improve at that rather than deviating from it.

2. I prefer Google, not because Bing is bad or Yahoo is stupid.

Honestly, those guys are doing their best to give us better SERPs, but Google clearly have an upper hand with it and have been doing the basics right, hence the great results. In fact, Bing have been doing a good show ever since its launch recently. And with the introduction of Google Social Search, I fear Google is getting closer to Bing or Yahoo.

3. If I need to search my social circle, I’d rather use social media.

Google was never in the social game earlier, and I cannot immediately go ahead and think of them as a replacement to Twitter search . They never will replace Twitter search and even if they tried, they came very close with Twitter integration and that’s all we wanted. We don’t want Google to be Twitter.

4. Google should do what they are best at, and not try to be Twitter.

The social media circle is enormous and the growth rate is envious. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re going to ignore Google. If Google wants to kill Twitter, I simply think that’s an immature call.

5. I agree I haven’t been using friendfeed, but injecting it to my Google search results is not the right way to push it.

We all know that friendfeed is a better social networking tool than anything else out there, but it doesn’t really have the charm to pull me towards it. Twitter’s got it, facebook’s got it, but friendfeed is more like a social network on feedburner. I know its cool, but I’m not going to use it. But when did that become a convincing reason to start pushing it on the SERPs ??!!

Anyways, these are my personal views about the Google Social Search. I haven’t found it interesting yet, even though at the back of my mind, I think that it might be something awesome. May be I’ll change my mind if I find it interesting enough for daily use.

What are your thoughts on Google Social Search ?