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I just noticed this tonight, but I haven’t logged onto the old laptop in a while – so I can’t confirm how recent of a development this really is. I am seeing this on both Firefox for my laptop and Safari on my iPad.

When logged into a Google account, search engine results for Twitter and LinkedIn (exact match search) are now also displaying a few small clickable avatars of people in your network, along with a clickable user name link.

Social Results From Twitter

Social Results From LinkedIn

Don’t Type It Wrong Though…

Observations

1. This is only triggered when logged into a Google account (for me anyway)
2. These social results only appear if I search for the site name itself.  They don’t appear if I include other words, or include a space in LinkedIn as shown above.

Questions I Don’t Have Time To Find Answers For Before Bed

1. Is there an authority factor at play with those social connections chosen to be displayed?
2. What’s going on from a rich snippet standpoint (if anything) on Twitter and LinkedIn’s end?
3. What other social sites are showing up in these social results?

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