Social search engine integration is an inevitable evolution in the social world.Google Labs has launched their Google Social Search which displays results from your friend’s Twitter, blogs, Flickr and many other social network feeds. Results are displayed at the bottom of the Google search page but limited to people in your social circle who have connected their social accounts with their Google profile. You may join this experiment at Google Labs .
Ever the rival Microsoft announced deals with Twitter and Facebook to add social updates in Bing.
This kind of integration is an inevitable evolution in the social world. The question is which of the two will be the dominant tyrannosaurus and who will end up as lunch?
Another nail in the coffin for newspapers as Google launches Fast Flip the new way to flick quickly through current headlines.
Currently to be found in Google Labs this is a great way page through snapshot items faster than sending the dog down to the local newsagent to pick up your copy of the Daily Read. We’ve been playing with it in the studio this morning and we’re pretty impressed. There are multiple ways of searching categorised news feeds by popularity, sections, topics and sources etc. You are presented with large images which you may scroll through and click to read the original article. This visual viewing experience kind of replicates the way you would naturally read through a magazine.There are even mobile apps for the iPhone and Android devices.
Google’s Flippin Fantastic News App
Looking at the news sources I guess the newspapers have resigned themselves to partner with Google to present their content. Good on them. No doubt they are continuing to look for new ways to monetise their offering online. I wonder how long it will be before other papers and magazines offer content through Fast Flip?
Look out for how Google develop this app. I would think they are already thinking about adding social book marking with the ability for content and source customisation and localisation. It would be good if there was an audio link which read the article to you.
