Google+ scores your relationships with your friends

It's not curious that the scores are not commutative; they shouldn't be. For example, I guarantee you that pg is more interesting to me than I am to him.

My top two relationships are two different accounts for my brother, and they have the same score. I wonder if it knows they're the same person.

Facebook also does this, for example by analyzing which pictures you and a friend are both tagged in. Probably there are other signals like wall posts, likes, and profile views.<p>You can see the result of this by the order of friends in the search box.

The scores seem to be in the same order as people are shown in the top-right corner, and on <a href="https://plus.google.com/circles" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/circles</a><p>I only saw 5-6 different score values there, so most people are ranked the same.

It'd be awesome if Google+ also tried to suggest ways of organizing your friends into circles (similar to how Gmail suggests people to add to emails).<p>In general, I think the Circles dataset will be really interesting, as I don't think anybody else has this kind of labeled groups data. (Have people actually been separating their friends into different Circles?)

Am I the only one getting a 400 error? Based on the posts, it seems it was working only 30 minutes ago.

This seems to indicate that the score has been around for a while because it is closely tied to GMail+GChat instead of Circles usage.

Am I the only one who can't figure out how to retrieve this? Is the underscore supposed to be replaced by my user ID? In that case I get only gibberish when I wget the page.<p>Edit: Nevermind that, figured it out through Inspect.

It appears that they use gmail and/or gtalk data (frequency?) as input factors; as some of my top scored friends I chat/mail with frequently but are yet not on Google+.

The same scoring data is used for the "Sort by Relevance" option on the Circles page.

My mother was #4. Zed Shaw was #7. The guy I worked on HNOfficeHours with is #1.

Not sure if this is an appropriate place to ask, but here it is anyway. If anyone has an invite, please send me one. I really dislike Facebook and want to give this a whirl.