Google Social Circle & Content

The linked page is part of the Google Social Search feature. It was launched in 2009. Information on the feature is available here: <a href="http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=165228" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer...</a>

This is not new. This has been there for quite sometime.

I admire Google for making information like this public.

that's a rough and very large social circle (for me at least). I'd still expect circles or whatever "next-gen" social network to make setting up groups of friends and information control a very easy and pervasive process, enough to make me pry myself away from using email for group communication.

i feel like this wont spawn an equivalent to facebooks "like" button, or twitters "retweet" or "follow me". when i say that im referring to those buttons on third party sites. but then again it might be in googles interest to do so.

i don't get it. what problem does this solve... that i don't know who my friends are?

Its not a bad start..the problem I see UI wise its no very clear how it ties into the information stream produced..ie FB has a news or wall stream..right now GC and your GP stream are separate entities and that might not be the way to go with the UI..<p>they might be better off combining the GP and GC interfaces together in some significant way...

Does anyone else find this creepy?