Exactly. I'm not my friends and my friends are often very different then me. They often listen different music or play different games.

I do not even want search results and suggestions to be ranked by previous signals from me, especially as it was implemented on youtube. I use them to find new things and styles, not to close myself into some ghetto defined by whatever I searched for first few weeks. I got curious about, say, folk songs and spend a week searching and watching them. It was temporary thing, but youtube insisted on suggesting them even as I was watching trance video two weeks later.

When I want to see what I seen before, I search by name or use bookmarks. When I want to see what my friend like, I ask them or look at facebook. Search is for when I look for something new.

I wanted to say exactly that. My friends are not like me. Even the friends I have that are software developers are not interested in the same things. Heck, even the people I work directly with aren't interested in the same things.

> I want my search results to be ranked with signals from other relevant people... and I don't know who these people are.

This is were you're partially wrong. Personally I know many people that I'd like to be included in my search ranking as signals. The problem is - those people are only a subset of the people that I follow on Twitter or Google+.

The problem with "Follow" or "Add as Friend" or whatever these social networks are calling it - is that some people are more interesting than others. Some people I follow simply because they are my friends. While other people I follow because I'm interested in whatever they've got to say. And this is the problem that Google should solve.

I wonder if adding an "authoritativeness/trust" rank to each user you follow would help with this. Whenever you'd add someone on a social network, you'd be asked to choose a number between 1-5 or something that tells the SN's recommendation system how much weight they should be given when choosing stories to show you or whatever.

> Social + Search

Yeah, I've never understood why Google was stressing social search so much, there's almost zero value in that.

Every decision you make is affected by others; if not your friends & family, your colleagues, people who share a similar interest, etc... Perhaps no one has nailed it yet, but Search is Social.

> Every decision you make is affected by others

That's not true.

But every decision you make is affected by your mood. They should add an option to select your mood to the top right corner of every Google website.

> Search is Social

What does that even mean? This sounds like some stupid, mindless, PR crap.

> This is where Google have gone wrong. I don't want my search results to be affected by signals from my friends. They don't search for the same things as me.

I get what you mean. But if I search for an solution for something StackOverflow-ish, it'd be be great to see JS results (98% of my coding friends) rather than, say .net results (only a handful of people).

A non-social search would merely show whatever answer had been around and popular enough to get the most pagerank.

You can turn it off if you don't use it that way.

yep, it would be nice at least if you could decide which circles contain relevant people to your interests (including ∅)