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Assuming this post is correct, Google is launching a "like button" that doesn't do anything useful. The value of a Facebook "like" is that it gets me into a use

Assuming this post is correct, Google is launching a "like button" that doesn't do anything useful. The value of a Facebook "like" is that it gets me into a user's social feed. All this Google button appears to do is give me a rating system for my content. Am I missing something?

tonfa 15y ago
If your friends +1'd something that is shown in a search result, aren't you more likely to click on it rather than the other results?
- joshklein 15y ago
  From the article: "Right now, the only way those within your social network on Google will see what you’ve +1′d is if you have effectively created a fresh network just for this, deliberately chosen to expose your +1 activity, and if you’re friends know exactly where to look to see this."
- idoh 15y ago
  Who are my Google friends? I'm not being snarky, I'm not sure who they would be. People I've emailed via gmail?
  - christianwilde 15y ago
    Take a look here http://www.google.com/s2/search/social http://www.google.com/s2/search/social If you add your social profiles to your google profile, Google will add all your contacts in those social networks to your "social circle". Also your gmail contacts, or people you follow on google reader and so on. More info here http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ Basically, google is collecting all the public social data to build the most complete social network they can.
    - willifred 15y ago
      Gmail has started suggesting friends to 'consider including' on emails. Personally, this has resulted in both me and my ex getting some very uncomfortable suggestions recently for whom to consider including in correspondence. It hasn't suggested we email each other, which would be forgivable, but a third party whom I had never directly emailed. And it highlighted for me what I consider to be a major problem with Google's social initiatives, which is that they've collected and employed this 'social' data in a completely antisocial way--behind your back, when you're using unrelated services. And it might be clever, but it can get very creepy.
      - btilly 15y ago
        And this is one of the pitfalls of testing things internally at a company like Google. There are a lot of important use cases in social networks around "me and my recent ex", but within a corporation you'll be unlikely to run into them. (Similar issues caused a lot of complaints for Google buzz.)
        rachelbythebay 15y ago
        They're chasing taillights. You know what Google and Facebook have in common? They both worry about Facebook.
      - natrius 15y ago
        I don't think the suggested recipients feature pulls from other users' contacts. You, your ex, and the third party have probably been recipients of the same message in the past.
  - tonfa 15y ago
    Yeah, I don't know how you define friends. They already show "Foo shared this on twitter" for some results (with a link to the twitter profile), which I've found quite useful.

tonfa 15y ago

If your friends +1'd something that is shown in a search result, aren't you more likely to click on it rather than the other results?

joshklein 15y ago
From the article: "Right now, the only way those within your social network on Google will see what you’ve +1′d is if you have effectively created a fresh network just for this, deliberately chosen to expose your +1 activity, and if you’re friends know exactly where to look to see this."
idoh 15y ago
Who are my Google friends? I'm not being snarky, I'm not sure who they would be. People I've emailed via gmail?
- christianwilde 15y ago
  Take a look here http://www.google.com/s2/search/social http://www.google.com/s2/search/social If you add your social profiles to your google profile, Google will add all your contacts in those social networks to your "social circle". Also your gmail contacts, or people you follow on google reader and so on. More info here http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ http://code.google.com/apis/socialgraph/ Basically, google is collecting all the public social data to build the most complete social network they can.
  - willifred 15y ago
    Gmail has started suggesting friends to 'consider including' on emails. Personally, this has resulted in both me and my ex getting some very uncomfortable suggestions recently for whom to consider including in correspondence. It hasn't suggested we email each other, which would be forgivable, but a third party whom I had never directly emailed. And it highlighted for me what I consider to be a major problem with Google's social initiatives, which is that they've collected and employed this 'social' data in a completely antisocial way--behind your back, when you're using unrelated services. And it might be clever, but it can get very creepy.
    - btilly 15y ago
      And this is one of the pitfalls of testing things internally at a company like Google. There are a lot of important use cases in social networks around "me and my recent ex", but within a corporation you'll be unlikely to run into them. (Similar issues caused a lot of complaints for Google buzz.)
      - rachelbythebay 15y ago
        They're chasing taillights. You know what Google and Facebook have in common? They both worry about Facebook.
    - natrius 15y ago
      I don't think the suggested recipients feature pulls from other users' contacts. You, your ex, and the third party have probably been recipients of the same message in the past.
- tonfa 15y ago
  Yeah, I don't know how you define friends. They already show "Foo shared this on twitter" for some results (with a link to the twitter profile), which I've found quite useful.