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Hack Swaps Google’s Search Plus Your World Results for the Wider Social Web

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Shortly after Google launched Search plus Your World earlier this month , critics accused the company of favoring its own nascent social network over the much richer results on others, like Twitter or Facebook. As Wired’s Steven Levy quipped , “there’s too much Plus and not enough of Our World, which has oodles of content on other social networks.” Now developers at Twitter, Facebook and MySpace have put together a demonstration of just how much relevancy Google sacrifices in order to push Google+.

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Getting Started With Twitter’s Embedded Tweets Feature

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Embed a tweet in any webpage Somewhat lost amidst the news of Twitter’s revamped interface is a slightly more interesting tidbit for web developers: Twitter posts can now be embedded in other pages . The new Embedded Tweet feature works just like a YouTube movie, offering a short HTML snippet that you can copy and paste into any third-party website.

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Google Adds Google+ Info to Gmail Contacts

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Google+ Circles in Gmail Google now includes Google+ profile information within contacts lists, both in Gmail and in the standalone Google Contacts manager. In addition to Google+ information about your contacts any Google+ circles you’ve set up will now be available inside the contacts manager. If you’d like to see the new features in action, head over to the Google Contacts page (or click the contacts link in your Gmail account ).

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New Google Bar Hides Navigation, Showcases Google+

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The new Google bar: minus the links, plus the + Google is rolling out an updated look for the “Google bar” that runs along the top of your screen on all of the company’s various web services. As with most Google interface changes this one seems to be rolling out incrementally. If you’d like to see it for yourself right now, the Google Operating System blog has instructions on how you can edit your browser’s Google cookie and trigger the revamped design.