Aren't (or weren't) Facebook share buttons also likely figured into Google's ranking algorithm? Not an SEO guy but think I remember reading something on that.

Aren't (or weren't) Facebook share buttons also likely figured into Google's ranking algorithm? Not an SEO guy but think I remember reading something on that. So why would giving points for including links to their own social network (that ultimately didn't go anywhere) be unsavory if it's treated essentially the same as others? My guess is this more the tone of what was implied rather than "If a publisher didn’t put a +1 button on the page, its search results would suffer." (Although substantially the outcome may be the same).