Social search
Google has also announced that it has moved its Social Search experiment into public beta.
This means that, from now on, when you do a keyword search on Google, it will offer you a link through to results from people in your ‘social circle'.
There's just one catch, however, you have to create that social circle yourself by adding people to Google contacts, creating a Google profile for yourself and encouraging your contacts to do the same.
With all this extra information Google is urging us to reveal about ourselves, it's a good thing our privacy is such a high priority isn't it?
Here's the inevitable vid:
