Social Search is for sure the “Future of Search”. Add digg and del.icio.us together to Google, preferably find a way to add friendfeed on top of these and you’ll have the future of “search and more” (I mean that will not only be search).

I wonder what Baidu and the other country focused search companies are doing in terms of social features. The winner in the “Future of Search” will have pretty good social features embedded into their search results. For me, it seems like Google will be the winner in social search.

Emre Sokullu’s work at Hakia.com is also a good example on what can be done at Social Search. I think Hakia saw Google’s entry into social search and that’s why they are now focusing more on a specific country (namely; Turkey).

If you’re in the search business, its really time to put some social features into your offering.

Quick Notes:
20-25% of the queries we will see today we have never seen before “Search embodies the story of a nation’s development through many centuries, not only math.”

Special Tasks at Google: (if you are starting up a search engine keep those in mind)
Quality Evaluation Team – Extensive & Deep – every day we look at stats and more
Ranking Engineer -
Localization / Language differences Manager (Tristin)
Translation (Maureen) Search is not a solved problem, we are very far. (Yes, I konw very well – MS) Soon Google Opens the web universally – Very soon translation for 12 language – translation and results come in your language (transleted)

NEW Features: Contextual navigation links Univarsal navigation bar (availible within hours)
- Google Begins Move to Universal Search
- www.google.com/experimental Currently Timeline and map views (for all the new experiments on search, next week signing starts)
- Universal Search – ranking is challenging – normalization of video results, pic resuls, book results, etc.(for taaze.com, this is not an issue yet)
- Sergey Brin married to Anne Wojcicki last weekend in Bahamas.