another step for google to make it more social. recently google.com added another button that will make your website more social. the Goolge +1 .. it is just like the facebook’s like button., but since facebook like’s has no support on it.. google has to come out with this idea as substitute.
Google wil show +1 buttons next to all search results and ads, and encouraging other sites to include the buttons. while all +1 are public and tied to Google Profiles. thier goal is to use this data to personalized search results and site by recommending sites +1′s by your friends.
“+1 is the digital shorthand for ‘this is pretty cool.’ To recommend something, all you have to do is click +1 on a webpage or ad you find useful. These +1′s will then start appearing in Google’s search results,” explains Google.
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One thing is clear: Google won’t have to translate “+1″ when it will localize the service, but it will have a hard time translating “+1′s”, “+1′d” and other cryptic constructs. Google +1′s URLs already look weird (here’s the homepage: http://www.google.com/+1).
Your +1′s are listed in a profile tab, where you can manage them. There’s also a page that lets you disable personalizing Google ads using +1′s and other information from your Google profile.
Google now has the most important pieces of a social network (profiles, activity stream, likes, apps), but there’s still no social network, no magic “glue” that connects the existing pieces. As Danny Sullivan explains, the “+1 social network” is made up of your Google Talk friends, the people from Gmail’s “My contacts” group and the people you follow in Google Reader and Google Buzz, but you’ll soon be able to connect other services like Twitter and Flickr. It’s actually a meta social network, an artificial service that won’t have too many enthusiastic users, just like Friend Connect.
more: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2011/03/google-1.html
