Well it didn’t take long for the first major development in social media of the year to unfold. The big story of social media so far in 2012 has come from the very public spat between Google and Twitter. If you weren’t taking Google’s latest foray into social media seriously, maybe it’s time to think again.
It all began when Google announced in a post on their own blog last week, introducing their new update Search plus Your World, meaning that results from Google’s own social network, Google+, would appear more often and prominent in search results on the search engine.
“We’re transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships. We began this transformation with Social Search, and today we’re taking another big step in this direction by introducing three new features:
