Google's Social Search products, which was up until sometime back a Labs feature, has now shifted base and is ready for wider testing.

Announced for the first time at the Web 2.0 conference, Social Search lets Google search users link their Google Profiles with any other profiles which they might have on social networking portals like Facebook and MySpace.

At first, Social Search was launched as a Google Labs product, but now, it has become available to a much wider range of Google users, as was announced by the company on Wednesday.

"We think there's tremendous potential for social information to improve search, and we're just beginning to scratch the surface", wrote Maureen Heymans, technical lead for Social Search, and Terran Melconian, technical lead for Social Image Search, in an official blog post.

To use Social Search, users need to have a Google account.