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Google +1: Screenshot and Details

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yes-track-me-please dept.

An anonymous reader noted that a screenshot has leaked showing Google's response to the Facebook 'Like' button that is used to track your every movement throughout the web. It's called Google +1. The product is not announced or launched, nor is the updated toolbar also discussed in the story.

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  1. Wow! It's Google's 'like' button! by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    zzzzzzz

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    1. Re:Wow! It's Google's 'like' button! by truthsearch · · Score: 2

      Based on the TFA it looks like it's just on Google properties, so even more zzzzz.

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  2. yay by circletimessquare · · Score: 3

    you don't have to feed all of your data to the beast called facebook anymore

    you can feed it to the beast called google

    you can still dutifully log all of the pointless insipid details of your life to a vast database for tracking and advertising purposes, just like before, but under a new corporate master

    yay

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    1. Re:yay by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Yeah, you know, at first I agreed with your sentiment.

      The problem with corporate masters is that they can easily be switched with bigger assholes than the one you signed on with. Google right now? Yeah, I mean, they're a bit sketch with the way they are collecting all the data and using it for advertising, but as far as I know, they haven't been as invasive or careless about my information as other sites have shown.

      Google 10 years from now? Is Eric still going to be running the show? What if we all give up our information to a company who has shown their goodwill and kept their promises, then overnight someone else takes over the company... Suddenly everything you shared earlier is in the hands of someone you might not trust.

      And there goes the neighbourhood.

  3. Endless Applications! by TaoPhoenix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everything on the web gets a Numerical Rating!
    Some people may get a +2. Spinal Tap gets +11.
    The RPG groups will have a field day with this.
    Haxxr0z will write loops to add +1 by bots.
    This will force a Captcha to slow the bots down.

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    1. Re:Endless Applications! by truthsearch · · Score: 4, Funny

      And you get a +1 Funny

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  4. StumbleUpon by rwa2 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Google already bought StumbleUpon a few years ago. It's awesome, use it !

    * The data collected by "Like" button helps send you more stuff you'd like based on what other people also liked.
    * There's a "Dislike" button
    * Provides reviews / discussion thread for any web URL
    * Don't need to link it to any of your other "social networks", it stands as its own separate social space pretty well. Never felt the need to share weblinks with friends / acquaintances, anyway, mostly because my IRL friends have vastly different pr0n preferences, and if a link makes me think of someone in particular I'll message it just to them.

    Facebook's "like" button has always been utterly useless in comparison, somewhere just above "poke" and below "wink".

    1. Re:StumbleUpon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      Google already bought StumbleUpon a few years ago.

      No - they didn't.

    2. Re:StumbleUpon by rwa2 · · Score: 2

      Oh, huh, you're right. I wonder where I got that crazy idea from... oh well, I stand corrected (and probably horribly abused in not too long :P )

  5. Re:That's cool by Andrewkov · · Score: 2

    Wow, I didn't know that, but today is my first day on the internets.

  6. Just another tracking move by vlueboy · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Slashdot has had a "like" system for longer than most other sites. Points for /., seeing how critical we all are. I know that our firehose system is newer, but our privacy with advertisers doesn't feel as exposed as with advertisement giants

    The issue with those 'Like' / dislike buttons on Facebook-bound sites, review sites, google techsupport ratings, Yahoo answers and other ratings is that you must register to each "virtual club" to vote. You must then sign in and associate your profile with each vote on what you like. Slashdot's moderation system is more secretive with our votes, but Google +1 data will be different in that our votes go directly to advertisers, if not all our friends.