On Tuesday, Google announced something called Search, plus Your World (SPYW). It marked a startling transformation of the company’s flagship product, Google Search, into an amplifier of social content. Google’s critics–as well as some folks generally well intentioned towards Google–have complained that the social content it amplifies is primarily Google’s own product, Google+.
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