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		<outline created="Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:46:05 GMT" text="Google's two-way search is good for the web">
			<outline created="Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:46:11 GMT" text="&lt;img src=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/02/03/wimpy.gif&quot; width=&quot;150&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; hspace=&quot;15&quot; vspace=&quot;5&quot; alt=&quot;A picture named wimpy.gif&quot;&gt;WIthout any fanfare as far as I can tell, Google has unveiled one of the most signficant, far-reaching and basically &lt;i&gt;good&lt;/i&gt; features in its core search product. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:48:30 GMT" text="Now, in addition to presenting the pages ranked in order of algorithmic importance, it also shows you what &lt;i&gt;people you know&lt;/i&gt; have to say about the subject. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:48:23 GMT" text="How does it know who you know? Based on some very simple information you may have entered into your Google profile. (I called this &lt;a href=&quot;http://twowaysearch.com/&quot;&gt;two-way search&lt;/a&gt; in July 2009.)"></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:48:17 GMT" text="For example, in my profile, I &lt;a href=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/02/03/myLinksOnGoogle.gif&quot;&gt;told&lt;/a&gt; it that I have a blog, am on Twitter, FriendFeed, run opml.org, have Flickr, Identi.ca, Picasa and YouTube accounts and OpenID. From there, it presumably either crawls or makes API calls to find out who I'm connected to and what I care about. There's a wealth of information about me just in the links on scripting.com. "></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:02:52 GMT" text="So, when I &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?q=michael+clayton&quot;&gt;search&lt;/a&gt; for &quot;Michael Clayton&quot; it &lt;a href=&quot;http://images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2010/02/03/example.gif&quot;&gt;includes&lt;/a&gt; results from my social circle. In this case it has a hit from Cody Brown who it knows (so they tell me) I know because I follow him on Twitter."></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:51:08 GMT" text="It's good for the web because it puts all the social services on the same &lt;i&gt;open&lt;/i&gt; playing field. If I want to add another service, I can put it in the list, and I can tell them how important it is to me by moving it up or down the list. It also makes sense for Google to throw its lot in with the web because they aren't Twitter or Facebook, and they got their start by indexing the open web. No matter what their motivations, that's for God to judge. Good is good. And good is not evil. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;"></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:54:27 GMT" text="If you have an account on Google, you can &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/profiles/me/editprofile?edit=as&quot;&gt;edit your profile here&lt;/a&gt;."></outline>
			<outline created="Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:51:55 GMT" text="At first the results aren't blowing me away, but I expect over time they will get better. "></outline>
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