Google Search Plus – What Is It All About?
Google Search Plus – A new kind of search service introduced by Google yesterday(10th Jan). The major feature of Google Search Plus is; this will integrate your personal results from Google + in to search engine result pages. Now the information on Google+ like People, Pages and Profiles will be seen on the SERPs.
Now Google users can choose what kind of search results they would like to see, there are two types of search results available first one as name says a Personal results where most of the results shown related to your or your contacts in G+, and another one is normal web search or no personal search.
This control can be toggled between Personal Search Results and Normal Web Search using the small button on the right corner of the search page as above image shows.
Google tries to reason out the main idea, behind the concept of incorporating Google+ profiles in search, through a published post on their official blog. The statement reads:
“Every day, there are hundreds of millions of searches for people. Sometimes, it’s hard to find the person you’re looking for. Once you do find him or her, there’s no quick way for you to actually interact. Starting today, you’ll have meaningful ways to connect with people instantly, right from the search results.”
As the user types in the first few alphabets of a person’s name, Google now auto-completes and bring up its own results in SERPs, where Google+ profile and other web results are highlighted. Once the desired person is found, users can view all the relevant web information that Google attributes to that person, bypassing all others sharing the same name. This will also allow the signed in Google+ users to add prominent Google+ profiles to their Circle directly from SERPs.
People and Pages:
When searched for a particular topic like cricket or laptops, Google will now show prominent people who frequently discuss it on Google+. This page will appear at the right hand side of the result page, encouraging users to strike meaningful conversations through Google+ and discover communities in an easy and never done before way.
New Security Level for SERPs:
Search plus Your World result pages will share the same protection level as that of Gmail via SSL encryption. This could come in as a relief for many who are worried about their Google+ profile and posts, appearing in search results, will leave them vulnerable. However this feature will not work if the user is not signed in, once you’ve logged onto Google and a search is made then all your search results including your own personal contents are safe. [Via]
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