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Re:Google rolls out Social Search globally by greglindahl on Thursday May 19, 2011 @05:45PM (#2565484)
FWIW, blekko lets you disable use of Facebook likes data. Opt-outs are good.

I don't really look at likes data as improving the quality of my search. I think of it as asking my social graph what their opinion is. I expect that to tell me what's popular, not what's best.

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Re:Google rolls out Social Search globally by zach on Thursday May 19, 2011 @06:20PM (#2565577)
That's a good perspective, thanks. It's looking really promising.

I still wonder how I can inform a social search that I'm "me at work" -- i.e. I'm more interested in what's popular with Hacker News users, not the people I jibber-jabber with on Facebook. I'm constantly searching YC comments for any technical subject.

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