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)."

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Please have a -1 Button

[Dayze!Confused]

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.

Re:Please have a -1 Button

[bwintx]

This (oh, sorry, I mean "+1" ).

Re:Please have a -1 Button

[$RANDOMLUSER]

This being Slashdot, it would only be ++i or --i; that is, increment/decrement BEFORE reading.

I don't get it

[suso]

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?

Re:I don't get it

[blair1q]

The KKK used to have 4 million members. Now it has 5 thousand. I can compare those and infer what happened in between.

The KKK also used to run candidates for office. How many won? People voted "DO NOT LIKE" by voting "LIKE" for the alternative.

Dislike buttons are tools of the trolls.

Re:I don't get it

[FleaPlus]

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?

Fewer potential lawsuits.

Re:I don't get it

[kumanopuusan]

..because every real world entity and url has a unique, diametrically opposed dual that we can vote for?

Quick, name the opposites for amoeba, square, triangle, pink, Harley-Davidson, cnn.com and conservation of angular momentum.

'Pure Infotech'

[improfane]

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.

Mod parent up!

[fotoguzzi]

(Or down, if you prefer).

Where's the -1 Hate button when you need it?

[tomhudson]

Unless it includes both like and hate, the numbers mean nothing.

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

Re:Where's the -1 Hate button when you need it?

[tomhudson]

Helpful additions:

-5 posted by hosts file guy/unity100/roman_mir

-20 posted by commodore64_love and clones (Note: Reserved for Federal Government use only)

-5? That's it? APK (the hosts file guy) deserves less. -30 or so. Every time someone posts an anonymous reply to him, or down-mods him, he freaks out and thinks it's from me! Then he goes and posts all sorts of crap-floods in my journal and after my posts, all the time accusing me of cyber-stalking him - just like he's doing right now.

The guy is an obese (as in BMI over 30) narcissistic obsessive paranoid misogynist. And those are probably his better qualities.

He's become quite obsessed with me, after I pointed out that his host file claims were total bs on more than one occasion. It's funny - he thinks he's bothering me, but I completely p0wn him. He can't help himself - I just have to post "JUMP, FAT BOY, JUMP" and he jumps. And jumps. And jumps. I figure at least it gives him some exercise, and keeps him off the streets where the sight of him would probably cause pregnant women to miscarry.

HOWTO: trolling the hosts file guy in one easy step

The next time you see a post by him, just reply anonymously. And to really mess with his head, reply anonymously to your anonymous post, disagreeing with your first anon post (extra points if you claim in the second post that you're him - that REALLY sets him off). He'll accuse you of being me, call you a c*nt (and he wonders why women don't like him), then start with the usual crap-floods of half-baked lies and innuendo.

Only your friends see your +1

[gurps_npc]

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.

Re:Only your friends see your +1

[macbutch]

Mmmm, yeah, except Google themselves say:

+1’ing is a public action. Anyone on the web can potentially see that you’ve +1’d content when they’re searching on Google or viewing content you’ve +1’d. For this reason, you should only +1 pages when you’re comfortable sharing your recommendation with the world."

Your +1’s may appear to anyone who sees the pages you’ve +1’d. However, we'll try to display your +1’s to people (specifically those in your social connections) who would find them most useful.

https://www.google.com/support/profiles/bin/answer.py?answer=1186915

So, does Rusty get residuals?

[wiredog]

The idea was pioneered on K5 about 12 years ago...

Re:So, does Rusty get residuals?

[WWWWolf]

Kuro5hin, once touted as a Slashdot alternative, was a pretty big name in social news and communal blogging back around 2000. (I was interested of the site because I'm fairly interested of the intersection of tech and politics. Then 9/11 happened, and as time went by, K5 became more about politics and less about tech. Yawn.) Basically, people could submit stories to sections, and they could be voted by registered users. If they get enough +1's to go past the threshold, they get posted. With enough "+1 FP" votes, the posts also go to the front page.

Google doesn't get it

[sharonlives]

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.

Re:Google doesn't get it

[Rary]

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.

Actually, they do get it. That's why you have to go out of your way to opt in to this by creating a public profile, and then clicking the "+1" button where applicable. The rest of us, who have no interest in it, can continue to use Search the way we always have.