The social search results that you see are personalized just for you. Other people will not see the exact same results that you see because they will be shown content from their own social connections.

The content you share and publish publicly online may appear in the search results of others. As a content creator online, you can add or remove links on your Google profile to make your public content more or less discoverable.

If you're a content author and Author tags have been added to your content pages and linked to your Google Profile, then your photo and name may appear next to these pages when they appear in search results, along with a link to your Google Profile. In addition, content you listed as yours will be added to the +1 tab of your Google Profile. Learn more about how you can use tags on webpages to tell Google about content authorship.

When you share new content or change existing content, it may take up to a day or so for Social Search to discover and reflect these updates.

You may not see social search results for a number of possible reasons:

• You need to be signed in to your Google Account to see social search results.
• You may have few social connections because you or your contacts are not connected through many online social services.
• Your network of contacts may not publish very much web content that is relevant to the types of searches you do.
• You may use a Google domain or interface language that does not yet support social search results.
• If your Google Account is based on a non-Google email address, you might not have any contacts available. You can try connecting the social sites that you use to your Google profile.
• If you recently added new links to your profile, know that it may take up to a day or so for your social search results to reflect the new contacts and content.

You can improve your social search results by expanding your social connections and encouraging your friends to publish and share content online:

1. Expand your public connections:
   • Create a Google profile.
   • Connect your public profiles from social websites such as Twitter or Flickr to your Google Account and Google profile.
   • On your Google Account and Google Profile, add links to your public content. For instance, you can add a link to your Blogger blog if you have one.
   • Find people to follow on Google Buzz.
   • Add public connected sites, like Twitter or Friendfeed, in Google Buzz.
2. Add friends and contacts: Add people who you want to be social connections to the My Contacts group in your Google contacts. Note that it may take up to a day or so for new connections to start showing in your social search results.
3. Subscribe to interesting content: Follow friends, celebrities, or anyone else who's sharing publicly in Google Reader. Learn how to find people to follow in Reader.