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Because, potentially, it can be used by Google to increase site rankings.
Because, potentially, it can be used by Google to increase site rankings.
I'll buy 10,000 GMail accounts and write a Ruby library to do this if likes can influence non-friends' SERPs. Being #1 = $$$
Google already uses signals from the Facebook Like button and Twitter tweets to increase site rankings, give them a little more credit!