I am not sure how to say this, but I am starting to think I might be antisocial. It's not because I have spoken to more smartphones than humans today, mind you -- no, that's just part of an average Thursday. My newfound sentiment stems from the fact that I am completely unmoved by Google's new social search effort, Google +1. If anything, I am actually midly annoyed by it.
Google is introducing the +1 button, which will be a like button, available directly on every one of your search results. The service will soon be available for testing and after that to everyone with a Google account.
Google +1 officially entered the world on Wednesday and is being rolled out to users as we speak. The service is kind of like Facebook's "Like" button, only instead of broadcasting your approval on some sort of wall, Google +1 puts your recommendation right into your friends search results. Google's +1 button will soon appear next to everything in Google-based searches and --like the hoard of social approval buttons before it -- will eventually show up on sites all over the Web as well.
The idea behind this is to vote +1 for Google search results or websites that you like. Essentially, this way you would be giving feedback to everyone else who is interested in the same topic. You would also be on the receiving of this new feature as the community opinion should help you find relevant information sources as well.
By pressing +1 you are actively promoting a search result or a website. It's not really a social thing as it does not share your preference - not before someone else searches for the same thing and if you know that someone (and its from your Google Social Circle and Content), your +1 vote would be rated even higher in their search results.
Essentially, it seems like a way to rate positively stuff you like so hopefully the spam and inferior websites would eventually be pushed down.
The new service will soon be rolling out on the Google experimental search site and everyone, who is interested, can go try it out, when it becomes available. After that Google will be including the +1 button in real search results and very soon after that, it should be embeddable on websites.
If that blasted +1 button had a "Dislike" widget, I would be clicking that thing like there was no tomorrow.
Google +1 officially entered the world on Wednesday and is being rolled out to users as we speak. The service is kind of like Facebook's "Like" button, only instead of broadcasting your approval on some sort of wall, Google +1 puts your recommendation right into your friends search results. Google's +1 button will soon appear next to everything in Google-based searches and --like the hoard of social approval buttons before it -- will eventually show up on sites all over the Web as well.
The idea behind this is to vote +1 for Google search results or websites that you like. Essentially, this way you would be giving feedback to everyone else who is interested in the same topic. You would also be on the receiving of this new feature as the community opinion should help you find relevant information sources as well.
Essentially, it seems like a way to rate positively stuff you like so hopefully the spam and inferior websites would eventually be pushed down.
The new service will soon be rolling out on the Google experimental search site and everyone, who is interested, can go try it out, when it becomes available. After that Google will be including the +1 button in real search results and very soon after that, it should be embeddable on websites.
If that blasted +1 button had a "Dislike" widget, I would be clicking that thing like there was no tomorrow.
