Danny and I reported at Search Engine Land on the Google Web Search Tests Getting More Social. Last week, Google began adding a realtime counter and “shared by” links in the web search results, on certain news one box results.
The Google Blog acknowledged it over the weekend. They said:
Here is a picture:
Search Engine Land has many more images, so check it out. I personally only see the shared by links and not the realtime counter feature. There is not much forum discussion on this user interface and functionality addition to the Google web search results, at least not yet.
Forum discussion at Google Blogoscoped Forums and WebmasterWorld.