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Google Is Introducing the +1 Button
An anonymous reader writes "It seems Google refuses to give up and is trying to push once again its way into the social space by introducing a new feature called +1, which basically has the same functionality as the Facebook 'Like' button (share recommended content with other people)."
I know everybody just has those times they wish that they could either just "Acknowledge" that they've read the comment and care, such as a friend getting sick or being dumped or getting into a car crash, or wish that they could state that they do not like a comment, maybe they could introduce a "Wrong" button also.
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What is the point of having a positive without a negative? Are they just trying to "keep things positive?" What if a Facebook page for the KKK had 300 likes? Isn't that be misleading when you can't compare it to anything?
For a site that claims to offer pure information technology and then spams you with popovers to subscribe. Junk website waste of bandwidth.
For the real source, try google themselves.
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Good one guys, but I saw that coming from a mile away! Oh wait...it's March 31st.
I didn't see anything in the article, but how will they be able to keep someone from promoting their own service or website just to draw in consumers?
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Google knows that no matter how smart your page rank system is, it will be gamed to the level it becomes unusable. Obviously, the +1 button will also be gamed, but at least it is going to be a bit harder. Expect botnets to take care of this, though.
Clearly, social ranking is going to be more important than algorithmic ranking. Googles pigeons have their best times behind them.
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I think you are forgetting that more people vote for American Idol than vote for the President; as such, any search term will probably just converge to Miley Cyrus, Justin Beiber, or equivalent.
How does it feel to be a liar with pants constantly on fire?
(Or down, if you prefer).
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I can't help but take your post as a direct challenge to participate in this conversation without rtfa.
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Are you associated with the website?
Do you mean pureinfotech.com or google.com since it appears to be a very pro Google article.
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It's basically like digg, or facebook like, or any other bumping, but, quite unlike everyone else, it's in your search results without the need to install a toolbar. It's also both social and global, so you have an incentive to link up with like-minded people, but you benefit from the preferences of the whole.
I'd certainly like a -1 facility, but I don't think that this is a small and/or stupid achievement.
On top of that, this gives Google absolutely awesome data to work with when it comes to refining search results and refining *ad* targeting.
A continuum would be even better:
+3 I want to have your baby! / +2 love / +1 like / 0 meh / -1 dislike / -2 hate / -3 GODWIN FTW / -4 Belongs on idle.slashdot.org
As stated IN THE ARTICLE, when you +1 something, only your contacts see it. So, if all your friends +1 something about the KKK, then you see it as highly ranked. But the rest of the world does not know how racists your friends are. When you +1 Obama = not a citizen, only your friends know see this and realize that they know a bunch of birther fools. Similarly, if you +1 GWB = failure, then only your friends see this and realize that they know you a bunch of commie fools.
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In before scores of users fail to read article and consequently raise concerns that are addressed by said article...
I took your advice and rtfa, but didn't really find anything that's not in the article summary which said it's basically a Facebook style "like" button for Google. Admittedly I didn't watch the video, do we need to wtfv too?
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The idea was pioneered on K5 about 12 years ago...
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You forget this is the internet. The internet is for porn. Expect much +1ings of popular pornstars and such.
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Why can't Google understand that I simply do not want to broadcast my searches to the world? I have been trusting Google with that information. If they want to use my click-throughs as part of their search algorithms, that's fine. But why do they want me to attach my name to it? Google keeps trying to go social and that goes against all the trust we put in Google's privacy policies.
Maybe because I'm not on FB, don't have a Twitter account etc, but I cannot see the benefit from a Social point of view of this.
As a 'search ranking' type tool though - without the need for an account etc - I could see the benefit in people being able to give a +1 to say that it was a good result for their search parameters, but a system like that would just end up being hijacked by script kiddies pushing their web pages up the list one way or another.
I wasn't aware that Miley Cyrus and Justin Beiber were on American Idol... I could have sworn they were on the Disney Channel...
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Funny, I took the slashdot news article as a direct challenge to participate in the conversation without RTFA.
Thought it was mandatory!
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Wasn't saying they were, just that more people are entertainment focused than politically focused.
How does it feel to be a liar with pants constantly on fire?
Yes, but most people peruse porn in private, and friends can see your +1s, so I don't expect 'most' people would intentionally +1 their favorite pornstar..
How does it feel to be a liar with pants constantly on fire?
While there is definitely a social aspect to this, the primary thrust behind this is SERP quality. Social Media is a great way to determine which sites are relevant, and which sites are spammy. This is about increasing the relevancy of search results... not a redo of Buzz.
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... it appears to be a very pro Google article.
Well their single quoted source was the Official Google Blog, so their bound to 'like' it.
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I thought Google's algorithms were supposed to decide which results were the best and put those at the top. I thought the "+1" was supposed to be a link to a site from another authoritative site. Is this an admission that this mechanism doesn't work? That it's been hopelessly gamed by spammers?
Who is going to bother, after going to a site from Google and finding it useful, to return to the search result page in order to click the "+1" button?
Also, why is Google still using Flash simply to serve up a movie? I thought they were interested in pushing HTML5.
Gen Xers are still nervous, yes, but Ys and Zs increasingly less so. I expect there to be sea change of sex positivism after the Boomers are gone. In fact that's why most of this discourse occurs in other channels, our parents and employers (who are often our parents' generation or like Gen X feel socially obligated to affect a similar outlook even if they don't believe it themselves) read facebook and other such things. So whenever porn manages to become an open topic of discussion for a group it is usually on IRC or at house parties or similar.
The social stigma is dieing, and at some point there will be a critical mass that will radically alter the role of sexuality as a shameful force in social structures/contexts.
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I know, I was just being a douche. I apologize for the confusion ;-)
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Google Reader has following buttons after each post: Add star, Like, Share, Share with Note, Email
Finally I can also have the "+1" button!
I swear none of the buttons could be stacked, they really must be separate.
. . . the "Hell, YES!" button.
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If we developed the ultimate taxonomic system for all reactions to things on the internet... it might be epic, but nobody would ever use it.
"Thumbs Up / Down" is appropriate when you are okay with a learning curve and you can afford to get more data for your ranking (StackOverflow, Slashdot).
"Like", on the other hand is appropriate for high volume sites (Digg, Hacker News), and social sites. It has a far wider (non-jerk) range of applications, even if it doesn't cover your friend's car crash. In those situations where "Like" isn't appropriate, you'll just have to comment instead -- as you should be doing anyway. "Hey, I cared enough to spend half a second pressing a button!" just doesn't cut it.
Google has the most usage and the least average commitment of any of the examples here, so they probably can't afford even the slight complication of "Thumbs Up / Down". They probably won't even show the aggregate of "+1" votes; it'll just figure as a signal into result rankings.
(TIME's ongoing "best feed" twitter showdown is an interesting example. It uses both, but only calculates ranking by "+1" votes. It currently shows Sarah Palin at position 23 of 140, while she only has a 0.14 approval ratio. That is the largest disparity between position and approval in the poll, which tracks Palin's record perfectly.)
This would be extremely useful in increasing the quality of search results if people could '+1' search results anonymously. Instead, Google's using this EXACTLY like the "Like" button on Facebook, which relies on having friends on Google already to be useful.
I think it's the right idea, but wrong implementation. Then again, I'm not a creative.
The article does not refer to any concerns. I think that was a generic "helpful frist psot" trying to garner karma instead of scorn.
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> Before long, any search for the term will just be a list of politicians
Sounds like the system works:P
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Google changed its logo to an unreadable collection of chemisty glassware glyphs to honor a guy who invented a liquid candle, but they never once changed it in February to honor Black History Month?
What. The. Fuck?
I'm going to picture Lex Luthor screaming that every time I press this +1 button now.
What do I know, I'm just an idiot, right?
At least Google had the decency to Labs-launch it rather than blow every trumpet... http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-engagement/googles-1-makes-searching-more-social-010713.php
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They really ought too. We know where +1 came from.
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.......have already been mentioned previously but I cannot be bothered to read all the responses. Pushnote already does the same for websites.
Totally stupid. Search results should be based on relevence and not popularity. With today's mobilization of large groups of voters the results are going to totally gamed by those who have networks.
+1 doesn't appear in a stream of any kind: it's just reflected in search results.
Put identity in the browser.
for the +1 operator: succ. It's unfortunate that we feel the need to verbize everything these days because I just wouldn't feel right succing people because they're succing me, in a sort of mutual succing arrangement, just so we feel better about ourselves.
+1 doesn't appear in a stream of any kind: it's just reflected in search results.
I'm not sure what you mean by "a stream of any kind", but all of your +1's are aggregated into your Google Profile.
+1 Internets for you, sir.
Have some chicken.
What if the majority doesn't share my interests? Will this feature make the search actually worse for me?
What does a +1 indicate?
It was news about a change that google will be making shortly. Who would you rather they cite, the Bing blog?
No, I was anticipating scores of users failing to understand what it actually is, and complaining that random people would be able to tamper with their search results, which is not at all how it works.
Absolutely agree... it also depends where in the world you are. Having travelled quite a lot, I find that some countries are a bit further along this road than others (the vast majority are moving that way; and nowhere is there "completely" yet; but there is definitely a difference between say, the USA and the Netherlands).
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Google will never grab any noticeable share of the social networking market until they stop insisting that those wanting to make use of those services also must use gmail for their email.
Sure, you can work around that with forwarding of emails from your gmail account, but it's an extra step and setting it up is something of a hassle.
197 ppl mistook the "+1" button for "-1"
Think it through.
If you don't like something, don't give a +1 or a Like. In systems where there's like and dislike it quickly becomes a trolling ground where people try to be/do things that are disliked. IT REWARDS NEGATIVE BEHAVIOR. It also becomes like Digg where people go back and forth burying and raising stuff for whatever petty reason. Heck, look no further than /. for what happens when people can use voting systems to punish and silence. There's more abuse than proper use.
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Why don't they use the unary increment operator? ;) (google's geek cred)--
This is the same as Netflix & Amazon, the +/- score (I hope they let us weed stuff out also) could be associated with search result strings and *voila* - Google has their improved search ranking algorithm. I hope.
Before spambots start taking advantage of it, it can at least be used to measure how many people like or were looking for certain sites. That way, the better quality results can go to the top of the results a bit more.
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