Google: Social Search launched in 19 additional languages
Google is expanding its social search. The search service now finds friends on Twitter and Facebook as well.
Google Search is to be expanded to 19 additional languages. The company announced this in its official blog. Social search is an application that links regular search results with publicly accessible data. This comes from the social media activities of friends, which includes people who are in a user's Google Talk lists and Google Contacts. It also includes people you follow on Buzz and Google Reader, as well as other networks linked to a Google account.
Social search was recently an issue when Facebook reportedly hired a PR firm to publish negative stories about social search in the press. As Mashable.com writes, Facebook is of the opinion that Google's practices are worrying in terms of privacy. Facebook is also unhappy that Google can use data from the social platform without Facebook's consent.
The social search should now be available for use in 19 languages next week. Further languages are planned.
