October 26th, Google launched a new labs product called Google Social Search. It is basically the only labs product I left on, by default, for my Google searches – it is that cool.

Over the weekend, I like many many others, noticed a Google notice that Social Search was “no longer available” as a Google experimental option. We all currently get this error:

There are many complaining about it on the blogs, Twitter and in the Google Web Search Help thread. So I emailed Google, asking what is up and they said:

So expect this feature to return back sometime today or tomorrow. Honestly, this is a feature that I doubt Google will ever completely terminate.

Forum discussion at Google Web Search Help.