Like it or not, Google’s new +1 feature and your twitter friends’ links showing up in search results point to the fact that the powers that be think we want our search to be a social experience. For the record, Bing is doing the same thing with your facebook friends.

The idea is that if someone we “know” discusses a link, it will show higher in our future search queries.

To be honest, this is a little scary. We’ve always known that Google, Facebook, Amazon, and the others track our every move, but now sharing that with others takes it a bit further.

How many educators have parents or students that follow them on twitter or friend them on facebook? Are you cool with years down the road some link you shared being brought to the attention of a former student or family member? Kind of creepy me thinks.