CHAPTER NINE

How Do I Discover Interesting News Subjects?

In this chapter:

+ Discovering “What’s Hot” Information

+ Looking at Ripples

+ Searching for Information

On Google+, not only can you look at posts from people in your Circles but you can also browse posts from people you may never have met. This is all part of Google+’s open nature: you can share content publicly or privately using Circles.

Google’s core strength is its powerful search technology, which is baked right into Google+. Google even integrates web articles that weren’t originally posted on Google+ in the form of Sparks. You can view these news snippets (or sparks of information) on Google+. And you can use Google+ tools to narrow your searches and save these searches to ...

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