Let’s say you wanted to find out what your friends or your business associates think of a new product. Google Social Search, now available in beta anatomy to general users, lets you search for that knowledge in the blogs, Twitter tweets, Facebook public pages, and other musings by your social circle.

Social search, first announced late last year, was available as a Google Labs project, and the company said Wednesday it’s now being offered for wider use. When

you query a term using social search and you’re signed into your Google history, the results include related subject matter created by your declared social circle.

Finding That ‘Great Baby Shop’

That social circle includes your contacts and one level into their contacts, as specified in your public Google profile, your Google chat buddies, and your Google Reader. The social contacts you’ve indicated are not available to anyone but you. […]

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