social search

Google competitors ramp up protests that the search giant favors its own social content, hurting Facebook and Twitter.

Austrian blogger and developer Florian Rohrweck recently discovered a lot of Google+'s upcoming features just by digging around in the source code for the new social networking service.

He was one of the first (but not the only one), to reveal Google+ Games before its launch, for example, as well as still unreleased features like "Shared Circles" and social search, among other things.

Now, it seems, Google has had enough of Rohrweck's snooping. It's hiring Rohrweck to help secure the code instead.

Google has begun the process of integrating Google+ into search results with the addition of public Google+ posts to Social Search.

Dr.Dobb's: "Web, social, search, mobile, and CMS in a single composite platform."

Google's new social search tool, +1, competes in some ways with Facebook's 'Like' feature.

Google has launched major updates to Social Search, integrating information from Twitter, Flickr and Quora throughout its search engine.