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Google +1 button for websites

123 points by abraham 15y ago

anigbrowl 15y ago
I wish it came with a -1 as well, but I imagine that will develop by itself. Significantly, this is based on your contacts, rather than what everyone at Facebook/Digg/whoever likes. I think this is a winning characteristic.
- flyt 15y ago
  Sorry, but Facebook's graph describes my actual friends. Gmails with my bank and landlord are not a better representation of my contacts.
  - MatthewPhillips 15y ago
    To most people Facebook's graph represents their friends, their family, their coworkers, people they went to high school with, random people who sent a request even though you met them once at a party... that is the norm. I've been saying for a while that the best representation of a true social graph is on you Android and iPhones. the people you call, text, email, and Facebook wall post are the people you care about. Why Google and Apple haven't used this to their advantage yet, I'm not sure.
    - nostrademons 15y ago
      There're potential privacy implications to using your call logs to build an implicit social graph. People have an expectation that their phone call records will remain private; look at all the trouble the NSA got into when they started spying on them. There's no such expectation when you explicitly give your relationship data to a third-party website. Not to say it won't happen, but a bunch of things need to be worked out on the legal/ethical/cultural side of things before this is practical. As PG always says, social changes take longer than technical changes.
      - MatthewPhillips 15y ago
        No need to violate anyone's privacy; do it completely on the client side. Then bridge to public via Buzz (in the case of Google).
        hessenwolf 15y ago
        I have two contacts in my email, one is my Mom, and the other is my male boss. All of a sudden I am seeing lots of transgenderfication sites in my results. Mom? It would still be a violation of privacy because it is crossing the friend/contact line.
  - abraham 15y ago
    Google Contacts has built in groups for friends, family and coworkers and several of Googles products support restrictions based on Contact groups.
  - anigbrowl 15y ago
    Ah, sorry for not stating that more clearly. What I meant by 'everyone at Facebook' was not the stuff on your wall etc., but where you see an article with the Facebook icon and 2,000 'likes' next to it. I don't expect that number to be reflective of my social graph in any way; it tells me only that 2000 Facebook users have expressed a liking for it. Likewise, a high number of votes for or against something on YouTube holds little personal interest for me, since so many people visit YouTube. But if there is a strong positive or negative bias among the peple I am in frequent contact with for particular google results, that's useful to me in the same way that the social graph is useful to you. Arguably Google's results ecosystem is just a larger and less-structured social silo than Facebook or any other social networking service, but then the web itself is a subset of the internet and the internet is a subset of the whole dataverse. I'm not saying those other products/services are bad, just that this one will deliver more obvious utility to me, given my existing way of working.
zitterbewegung 15y ago
I sort of have an issue with the name. I can understand that the average user would understand Facebook's Like and Twitters follow but I see that +1 is sort of technical jargon...
- Drakim 15y ago
  Nah, even my technological challenged family understands the concept of giving a website plus one point. +1 is fairly simple to understand as a positive thing both inside and outside of a computer context.
tristanperry 15y ago
It'll be good to test this feature; it sounds like it could be a useful addition to the other social-esque 'like this' type buttons. One thing though, the 'add +1 to your website' page (http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html) is broken for me. I see the following in vanilla Firefox 4.0.1, Windows 7 64-bit: http://www.tristanperry.com/pics/GoogleSite.jpg http://www.tristanperry.com/pics/GoogleSite.jpg Changing the settings doesn't fix the fact that the preview doesn't appear (and that its bounding box is overflowing) Just an FYI.
- AndyNemmity 15y ago
  Preview didn't appear for me either, so I just put it on my site to look at it. They look great imo.
- abraham 15y ago
  They just started working for me.
  - tristanperry 15y ago
    Ah yep, works for me now. Is working well :)
- golgo13 15y ago
  Not working for me in IE 9 (yes, I am that guy) or Opera 11.11 http://imgur.com/34Ad3 http://imgur.com/34Ad3
- jmaygarden 15y ago
  I'm just getting the following JavaScript that naturally does nothing. window.gapi={}; window.gapi.plusone={ go:function(){}, render:function(){} };
bauchidgw 15y ago
well, lets just hope they don't just deprecate it - due to the "economic burden" - the second after we all implemented it.
AndyNemmity 15y ago
Well, the +1 button worked for a good 10 minutes, and then my site stops responding trying to pull the js from google. down for 2 minutes, now back up again. Must be a frenzy. EDIT: when it came back up, it also didn't have my saved +1. I had to redo it. Seems pretty buggy right now. EDIT 2: Okay, my site is down again. I'm removing the button for awhile.
- willscott 15y ago
  That seems hard to believe. The buttons seem to show up fine on tech crunch and google search. It's difficult to imagine that Google has been 'slashdotted' due to serving up a javascript widget...
  - AndyNemmity 15y ago
    I certainly agree, it's not like I don't use google to host jquery, or any other number of things. However it was seriously hanging on that one js call. Perhaps it's just my experience, but I'm going to wait at least an hour before I try again. I like my site responding.
- abraham 15y ago
  Put the script tag after the content of your site.
  - AndyNemmity 15y ago
    Yeah, I did have it in the header, when it readd it in an hour, I'll have it at the bottom.
mtgentry 15y ago
It's unclear what the user gains by clicking on a +1 button. Clearly my friends won't see my recommendations because Google doesn't connect me to them. They should just come out and say "listen, we know search is broken. We need your help to fix it! Click on this button when you see something you like on the web." Position it as a passionate call to arms to all google users. Right now it feels like a boring press release.
- rsoto 15y ago
  Google doesn't think that the search is broken, so they aren't looking for fixes. And even if they were, the +1 button would be a heaven-sent for spammers, so that's not the fix they're looking for.
- Lewisham 15y ago
  Google does connect you to social graphs it can see: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=1067707 http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer... I wouldn't say that +1 is saying "search is broken" at all. It's just another signal.
  - mtgentry 15y ago
    Re: the social graphs, I should have said that for me personally, my friends aren't on any of those services so that's why it isn't relevant. I'm saying +1's main reason for existence SHOULD be to fix search. And they should say as much. A better search experience is a much more valuable thing than friend recommendations.
- jnhnum1 15y ago
  Your friends will see your recommendations, if they're relevant. You won't spam your friends by clicking +1 all over the place, but if your friends happen to be searching for something relevant to what you've +1'ed, I believe they will show up.
- losvedir 15y ago
  Hmm... the user could potentially benefit from better search results. This is, of course, being positioned as a social "like"-type button, but it definitely could have benefits individually, as well. Imagine if Google looked at the history of your +1's, compared it to other users', etc, and improved your search results that way.
johnyzee 15y ago
Isn't "+1" kind of an insider reference to the Slashdot voting system? It may be instantly recognizable to us, but is it really intuitive what this does to the vast masses of everyday-Joe internet users? Seems to me like another hit from engineer driven Google product development. Also: "But sometimes you want to +1 a page while you’re on it. After all, how do you know you want to suggest that recipe for chocolate flan if you haven’t tried it out yet?" I may be having a case of the Mondays here or something, but I really hate this kind of forced chipperness in corporate communication, and I am seeing a lot of it from Google, most recently in the 'funny' "Let's put more cats on the internet!" marketing for the Chrome netbook. Again it seems like some high-brow Google engineers, based on statistical evidence that humans have feelings, decided to employ some grandmother type to filter all their marketing through.
- AndyNemmity 15y ago
  I didn't think slashdot when I saw it, so no. I thought perl, and the standard ++ we do in chat rooms to say we like something. google++
- mdwrigh2 15y ago
  > "Again it seems like some high-brow Google engineers, based on statistical evidence that humans have feelings, decided to employ some grandmother type to filter all their marketing through." It seems like you, based on unstatistical evidence of Google Engineers, decided they were all Borg and incapable of feeling.
- kenjackson 15y ago
  The term "+1" evokes, to me, RSVPs. It means that I want to go and take someone with me. I assumed it meant that I like this page, and someone I like may like it as well. But honestly, it's not something I spent more than .1s thinking about until writing this.
duopixel 15y ago
Google is trying to throw it's weight at something it's competitors already do better. Even if it does catch on, we all lose with the social sharing craze that is littering the web. More clutter, slower loading pages, and gimmicks to get to you upvote a site. This has happened before, first it was the syndication format craze with icons for RSS, RSS 2.0, atom, xml, etc. Then it was the aggregator craze (Digg, Reddit, StumpleUpon, etc) and now it's the social craze (Facebook, Twitter, etc). There's a clear need for sharing what you like, from the perspective of the user and the publisher. I've put these buttons into my design, but I'd rather see the browsers' favorites revamped into a searchable database that allows easy sharing and get rid of this madness.
- sukuriant 15y ago
  So, you want Delicious?
  - nostrademons 15y ago
    In the browser.
    - sukuriant 15y ago
      I used to use a Firefox add-in for it, myself. Worked flawlessly in my usage
- Daniel14 15y ago
  > Google is trying to throw it's weight at something it's competitors already do better. I don't quite understand how you can do a like button "better". If by that you mean the number of current users, I disagree that Google should stop competing just because there are more people on FB.
  - duopixel 15y ago
    As of today, Google doesn't have a social platform to leverage +1. Without it, your upvotes are effectively going into a blackhole. Nobody will see them, so what's the point of upvoting and putting the button on your site?
paulnelligan 15y ago
I'm feeling like this is another 'Buzz', another failed attempt to get social. The proposed idea of sharing stuff with my 'friends and contacts' rings very hollow, since the vast majority of my google contacts are people I've only emailed once, and never have met. For a company seemingly filled with very smart people, this is a pretty basic mistake. -1
executive 15y ago
and yet there is no +1 button on that page..
- abraham 15y ago
  There is now.
deleted 15y ago
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braindead_in 15y ago
One thing that's going in it's favor is the SEO advantage you get. This data is eventually going to play some role in the SERP rankings, one way or other. I'm not sure if it's confirmed by Google, but it apparent enough. That's incentive enough for sites to add this button.
- nanoanderson 15y ago
  This is something I feel like people are discounting. +1 won't displace Liking as a _social network feature_, but it will be very interesting to see how it plays out as a _social search feature_, which is why I'm looking for how best to implement it on my own sites. Wouldn't you be more inclined to choose a result on Google if people you know/trust +1'd it?
  - braindead_in 15y ago
    Yes, Google can easily rank the search results based on +1's in your social network if you're logged in. The implications are really interesting. It has to succeed though first. People have to start +1'ing for it to happen.
Sephr 15y ago
What's with everyone making up tag names and undefined namespaces nowadays? <g:plusone>? A simple <span> with a class or data attribute would suffice.
- Encosia 15y ago
  I had the same reaction. Looking into the documentation[0], it turns out that you can also use a div with data- attributes instead, like this: <div class="g-plusone" data-size="standard" data-count="true"></div> [0] http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/ http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/
petervandijck 15y ago
Which friends though? Who are these friends that I am recommending it to??
- paganel 15y ago
  Your GMail contacts. Wait, they can't do that anymore! I genuinely don't know then, they must have a clever algorithm in place to create a brand new list of friends, depending on your past searches.
tmugavero 15y ago
Ugh, another button. The check-in buttons are coming next. Soon, there will be an aggregate button that lets you Like, Follow, +1, Check-in, Tweet, Post to FB, and save the page for later. There will be no more corporate or personal websites to house the aggregate button either. They will live on an aggregate page which has all the feeds from all the social networks in one place. This aggregate page will itself live on a social network which will have many clones that need to be aggregated. Goodbye signal, hello noise.
prasunsen 15y ago
Funny, the "Get code" link in the email Google sent me goes to 404 page. Fail.
- prasunsen 15y ago
  What's the deal with the downvote? Even the button in the Adsense interface does not work.
  - MartinCron 15y ago
    I didn't down vote, but I guess it was a reaction against using "fail" as a standalone sentence. There are some curmudgeons who don't like that newfangled interweb colloquialisms.
notYoursAtAll 15y ago
added to my Enterprise hosts file: (for workers) 127.0.0.1 www.co2stats.com 127.0.0.1 apis.google.com 127.0.0.1 l.sharethis.com 127.0.0.1 w.sharethis.com 127.0.0.1 wd.sharethis.com 127.0.0.1 plusone.google.com 127.0.0.1 platform.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 seg.sharethis.com any others I am missing? need to make sure this garbage is kept off of business workstations and the network
- mtogo 15y ago
  Thanks! Hopefully Ghostery/Disconnect will start blocking this soon, too.
- mkjones 15y ago
  I don't understand - what negative effect would this have on your employees workstation or your network - just slower page load times? Doesn't that seem a bit draconian?
pasbesoin 15y ago
Given what my friends "Like" on FB (I'm friends with them for other reasons), a similar signal (aka "noise") in Google search results seems almost or actually to be a disincentive, for me personally, to forming "connections". I think this may be an attempt to conflate two things that for some (many?) remain separate domains. EDIT: OTOH, general initiatives to improve search results (i.e. Panda) have been quite useful, for me. Now I'm sitting here, wondering why/how I end up repeatedly sounding negative about various Google "social" initiatives -- as actually incorporated. It's not that I'm against their trying. But... they do seem to keep missing the mark.
hxf148 15y ago
Tried to integrate it on http://infostripe.com http://infostripe.com but ran into issues of it not rendering as expected or when expected, the counter balloon having some CSS background issues. I'll try it again in a bit but I am disappointed so far with the implementation. Maybe it's getting crushed.. but it is Google..
mikecane 15y ago
I'm surprised WordPress.com wasn't on board with this at the start. It already has Like buttons (ugh) as well as Twitter, Facebook, etc. WordPress is otherwise great at getting its blog posts into Google results, so I figured this was a natural.
yahelc 15y ago
Best feature here: built-in support for callback functions. Makes Google Analytics integration seamless!
kaerast 15y ago
This has the same problem as Facebook Likes - you can create a +1 for a url other than the one you are currently on. And spot the javascript callback which encourages a '+1 this page to reach the video' setup.
olalonde 15y ago
In case anyone's wondering how to add the +1 button to their Posterous (which doesn't allow Javascript), feel free to use this iframe:  <iframe src="http://dev.syskall.com/plusone/?url={Permalink}&size=tall" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border:0;width:50px;height:60px;"></iframe> I'll publish the PHP script on my github[1] shortly in case you want to host it yourself. [1] https://github.com/olalonde/google-plusone-posterous https://github.com/olalonde/google-plusone-posterous
jarin 15y ago
Ok, I've added it to one of my clients' sites (NOT WORK SAFE http://www.dirtyhotproductions.com http://www.dirtyhotproductions.com NOT WORK SAFE). I'm not sure if anyone will use it on there (especially with the big warning about your +1s being publicly viewable), but here's hoping it boosts search engine rankings at least.
rglover 15y ago
Out of all of Google's social efforts, this is the most promising yet. What's unique about this is that (if they're keeping a search oriented business model) it could allow for a more social ranking system. In other words, after a link gets so many recommendations, it moves up in search. I for one would love a search feature where I could click "recommended" and see if anyone I know has had experience with the topic. Baby steps are imperative with this one.
bad_user 15y ago
Pff, doesn't work with Google Apps accounts, as these accounts can't have a Google Profile. So here is Google offering me the best and most useful online service I ever used (Google Apps), and they can't integrate it with their services properly.
- MartinCron 15y ago
  Not only that, it's the flavor of their services that you are paying for. Drives me crazy.
- speleding 15y ago
  I agree it sucks, but they did just announce on the Google Apps blog that it will be coming "shortly" to Google Apps
speleding 15y ago
Hmm, too bad that the HTML4 code they propose fails validation with my validator (Nokigiri) and the HTML5 code they propose doesn't seem to work on HTML4 pages. I solved it by mixing and matching the two: <div class="g-plusone" size="small" count="false"></div> This fails the official W3C validator but it works with Nokogiri. The odd way to set the language of the button {"lang":"de"} trips up syntax error marking in my IDE too.

123 points by abraham 15y ago

I wish it came with a -1 as well, but I imagine that will develop by itself. Significantly, this is based on your contacts, rather than what everyone at Facebook/Digg/whoever likes. I think this is a winning characteristic.

flyt 15y ago
Sorry, but Facebook's graph describes my actual friends. Gmails with my bank and landlord are not a better representation of my contacts.
- MatthewPhillips 15y ago
  To most people Facebook's graph represents their friends, their family, their coworkers, people they went to high school with, random people who sent a request even though you met them once at a party... that is the norm. I've been saying for a while that the best representation of a true social graph is on you Android and iPhones. the people you call, text, email, and Facebook wall post are the people you care about. Why Google and Apple haven't used this to their advantage yet, I'm not sure.
  - nostrademons 15y ago
    There're potential privacy implications to using your call logs to build an implicit social graph. People have an expectation that their phone call records will remain private; look at all the trouble the NSA got into when they started spying on them. There's no such expectation when you explicitly give your relationship data to a third-party website. Not to say it won't happen, but a bunch of things need to be worked out on the legal/ethical/cultural side of things before this is practical. As PG always says, social changes take longer than technical changes.
    - MatthewPhillips 15y ago
      No need to violate anyone's privacy; do it completely on the client side. Then bridge to public via Buzz (in the case of Google).
      - hessenwolf 15y ago
        I have two contacts in my email, one is my Mom, and the other is my male boss. All of a sudden I am seeing lots of transgenderfication sites in my results. Mom? It would still be a violation of privacy because it is crossing the friend/contact line.
- abraham 15y ago
  Google Contacts has built in groups for friends, family and coworkers and several of Googles products support restrictions based on Contact groups.
- anigbrowl 15y ago
  Ah, sorry for not stating that more clearly. What I meant by 'everyone at Facebook' was not the stuff on your wall etc., but where you see an article with the Facebook icon and 2,000 'likes' next to it. I don't expect that number to be reflective of my social graph in any way; it tells me only that 2000 Facebook users have expressed a liking for it. Likewise, a high number of votes for or against something on YouTube holds little personal interest for me, since so many people visit YouTube. But if there is a strong positive or negative bias among the peple I am in frequent contact with for particular google results, that's useful to me in the same way that the social graph is useful to you. Arguably Google's results ecosystem is just a larger and less-structured social silo than Facebook or any other social networking service, but then the web itself is a subset of the internet and the internet is a subset of the whole dataverse. I'm not saying those other products/services are bad, just that this one will deliver more obvious utility to me, given my existing way of working.

zitterbewegung 15y ago

I sort of have an issue with the name. I can understand that the average user would understand Facebook's Like and Twitters follow but I see that +1 is sort of technical jargon...

Drakim 15y ago
Nah, even my technological challenged family understands the concept of giving a website plus one point. +1 is fairly simple to understand as a positive thing both inside and outside of a computer context.

tristanperry 15y ago

It'll be good to test this feature; it sounds like it could be a useful addition to the other social-esque 'like this' type buttons. One thing though, the 'add +1 to your website' page (http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html http://www.google.com/webmasters/+1/button/index.html) is broken for me. I see the following in vanilla Firefox 4.0.1, Windows 7 64-bit: http://www.tristanperry.com/pics/GoogleSite.jpg http://www.tristanperry.com/pics/GoogleSite.jpg Changing the settings doesn't fix the fact that the preview doesn't appear (and that its bounding box is overflowing) Just an FYI.

AndyNemmity 15y ago
Preview didn't appear for me either, so I just put it on my site to look at it. They look great imo.
abraham 15y ago
They just started working for me.
- tristanperry 15y ago
  Ah yep, works for me now. Is working well :)
golgo13 15y ago
Not working for me in IE 9 (yes, I am that guy) or Opera 11.11 http://imgur.com/34Ad3 http://imgur.com/34Ad3
jmaygarden 15y ago
I'm just getting the following JavaScript that naturally does nothing. window.gapi={}; window.gapi.plusone={ go:function(){}, render:function(){} };

bauchidgw 15y ago

well, lets just hope they don't just deprecate it - due to the "economic burden" - the second after we all implemented it.

AndyNemmity 15y ago

Well, the +1 button worked for a good 10 minutes, and then my site stops responding trying to pull the js from google. down for 2 minutes, now back up again. Must be a frenzy. EDIT: when it came back up, it also didn't have my saved +1. I had to redo it. Seems pretty buggy right now. EDIT 2: Okay, my site is down again. I'm removing the button for awhile.

willscott 15y ago
That seems hard to believe. The buttons seem to show up fine on tech crunch and google search. It's difficult to imagine that Google has been 'slashdotted' due to serving up a javascript widget...
- AndyNemmity 15y ago
  I certainly agree, it's not like I don't use google to host jquery, or any other number of things. However it was seriously hanging on that one js call. Perhaps it's just my experience, but I'm going to wait at least an hour before I try again. I like my site responding.
abraham 15y ago
Put the script tag after the content of your site.
- AndyNemmity 15y ago
  Yeah, I did have it in the header, when it readd it in an hour, I'll have it at the bottom.

mtgentry 15y ago

It's unclear what the user gains by clicking on a +1 button. Clearly my friends won't see my recommendations because Google doesn't connect me to them. They should just come out and say "listen, we know search is broken. We need your help to fix it! Click on this button when you see something you like on the web." Position it as a passionate call to arms to all google users. Right now it feels like a boring press release.

rsoto 15y ago
Google doesn't think that the search is broken, so they aren't looking for fixes. And even if they were, the +1 button would be a heaven-sent for spammers, so that's not the fix they're looking for.
Lewisham 15y ago
Google does connect you to social graphs it can see: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=1067707 http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer... I wouldn't say that +1 is saying "search is broken" at all. It's just another signal.
- mtgentry 15y ago
  Re: the social graphs, I should have said that for me personally, my friends aren't on any of those services so that's why it isn't relevant. I'm saying +1's main reason for existence SHOULD be to fix search. And they should say as much. A better search experience is a much more valuable thing than friend recommendations.
jnhnum1 15y ago
Your friends will see your recommendations, if they're relevant. You won't spam your friends by clicking +1 all over the place, but if your friends happen to be searching for something relevant to what you've +1'ed, I believe they will show up.
losvedir 15y ago
Hmm... the user could potentially benefit from better search results. This is, of course, being positioned as a social "like"-type button, but it definitely could have benefits individually, as well. Imagine if Google looked at the history of your +1's, compared it to other users', etc, and improved your search results that way.

johnyzee 15y ago

Isn't "+1" kind of an insider reference to the Slashdot voting system? It may be instantly recognizable to us, but is it really intuitive what this does to the vast masses of everyday-Joe internet users? Seems to me like another hit from engineer driven Google product development. Also: "But sometimes you want to +1 a page while you’re on it. After all, how do you know you want to suggest that recipe for chocolate flan if you haven’t tried it out yet?" I may be having a case of the Mondays here or something, but I really hate this kind of forced chipperness in corporate communication, and I am seeing a lot of it from Google, most recently in the 'funny' "Let's put more cats on the internet!" marketing for the Chrome netbook. Again it seems like some high-brow Google engineers, based on statistical evidence that humans have feelings, decided to employ some grandmother type to filter all their marketing through.

AndyNemmity 15y ago
I didn't think slashdot when I saw it, so no. I thought perl, and the standard ++ we do in chat rooms to say we like something. google++
mdwrigh2 15y ago
> "Again it seems like some high-brow Google engineers, based on statistical evidence that humans have feelings, decided to employ some grandmother type to filter all their marketing through." It seems like you, based on unstatistical evidence of Google Engineers, decided they were all Borg and incapable of feeling.
kenjackson 15y ago
The term "+1" evokes, to me, RSVPs. It means that I want to go and take someone with me. I assumed it meant that I like this page, and someone I like may like it as well. But honestly, it's not something I spent more than .1s thinking about until writing this.

duopixel 15y ago

Google is trying to throw it's weight at something it's competitors already do better. Even if it does catch on, we all lose with the social sharing craze that is littering the web. More clutter, slower loading pages, and gimmicks to get to you upvote a site. This has happened before, first it was the syndication format craze with icons for RSS, RSS 2.0, atom, xml, etc. Then it was the aggregator craze (Digg, Reddit, StumpleUpon, etc) and now it's the social craze (Facebook, Twitter, etc). There's a clear need for sharing what you like, from the perspective of the user and the publisher. I've put these buttons into my design, but I'd rather see the browsers' favorites revamped into a searchable database that allows easy sharing and get rid of this madness.

sukuriant 15y ago
So, you want Delicious?
- nostrademons 15y ago
  In the browser.
  - sukuriant 15y ago
    I used to use a Firefox add-in for it, myself. Worked flawlessly in my usage
Daniel14 15y ago
> Google is trying to throw it's weight at something it's competitors already do better. I don't quite understand how you can do a like button "better". If by that you mean the number of current users, I disagree that Google should stop competing just because there are more people on FB.
- duopixel 15y ago
  As of today, Google doesn't have a social platform to leverage +1. Without it, your upvotes are effectively going into a blackhole. Nobody will see them, so what's the point of upvoting and putting the button on your site?

paulnelligan 15y ago

I'm feeling like this is another 'Buzz', another failed attempt to get social. The proposed idea of sharing stuff with my 'friends and contacts' rings very hollow, since the vast majority of my google contacts are people I've only emailed once, and never have met. For a company seemingly filled with very smart people, this is a pretty basic mistake. -1

executive 15y ago

and yet there is no +1 button on that page..

abraham 15y ago
There is now.

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braindead_in 15y ago

One thing that's going in it's favor is the SEO advantage you get. This data is eventually going to play some role in the SERP rankings, one way or other. I'm not sure if it's confirmed by Google, but it apparent enough. That's incentive enough for sites to add this button.

nanoanderson 15y ago
This is something I feel like people are discounting. +1 won't displace Liking as a _social network feature_, but it will be very interesting to see how it plays out as a _social search feature_, which is why I'm looking for how best to implement it on my own sites. Wouldn't you be more inclined to choose a result on Google if people you know/trust +1'd it?
- braindead_in 15y ago
  Yes, Google can easily rank the search results based on +1's in your social network if you're logged in. The implications are really interesting. It has to succeed though first. People have to start +1'ing for it to happen.

Sephr 15y ago

What's with everyone making up tag names and undefined namespaces nowadays? <g:plusone>? A simple <span> with a class or data attribute would suffice.

Encosia 15y ago
I had the same reaction. Looking into the documentation[0], it turns out that you can also use a div with data- attributes instead, like this: <div class="g-plusone" data-size="standard" data-count="true"></div> [0] http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/ http://code.google.com/apis/+1button/

petervandijck 15y ago

Which friends though? Who are these friends that I am recommending it to??

paganel 15y ago
Your GMail contacts. Wait, they can't do that anymore! I genuinely don't know then, they must have a clever algorithm in place to create a brand new list of friends, depending on your past searches.

tmugavero 15y ago

Ugh, another button. The check-in buttons are coming next. Soon, there will be an aggregate button that lets you Like, Follow, +1, Check-in, Tweet, Post to FB, and save the page for later. There will be no more corporate or personal websites to house the aggregate button either. They will live on an aggregate page which has all the feeds from all the social networks in one place. This aggregate page will itself live on a social network which will have many clones that need to be aggregated. Goodbye signal, hello noise.

prasunsen 15y ago

Funny, the "Get code" link in the email Google sent me goes to 404 page. Fail.

prasunsen 15y ago
What's the deal with the downvote? Even the button in the Adsense interface does not work.
- MartinCron 15y ago
  I didn't down vote, but I guess it was a reaction against using "fail" as a standalone sentence. There are some curmudgeons who don't like that newfangled interweb colloquialisms.

notYoursAtAll 15y ago

added to my Enterprise hosts file: (for workers) 127.0.0.1 www.co2stats.com 127.0.0.1 apis.google.com 127.0.0.1 l.sharethis.com 127.0.0.1 w.sharethis.com 127.0.0.1 wd.sharethis.com 127.0.0.1 plusone.google.com 127.0.0.1 platform.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com 127.0.0.1 seg.sharethis.com any others I am missing? need to make sure this garbage is kept off of business workstations and the network

mtogo 15y ago
Thanks! Hopefully Ghostery/Disconnect will start blocking this soon, too.
mkjones 15y ago
I don't understand - what negative effect would this have on your employees workstation or your network - just slower page load times? Doesn't that seem a bit draconian?

pasbesoin 15y ago

Given what my friends "Like" on FB (I'm friends with them for other reasons), a similar signal (aka "noise") in Google search results seems almost or actually to be a disincentive, for me personally, to forming "connections". I think this may be an attempt to conflate two things that for some (many?) remain separate domains. EDIT: OTOH, general initiatives to improve search results (i.e. Panda) have been quite useful, for me. Now I'm sitting here, wondering why/how I end up repeatedly sounding negative about various Google "social" initiatives -- as actually incorporated. It's not that I'm against their trying. But... they do seem to keep missing the mark.

hxf148 15y ago

Tried to integrate it on http://infostripe.com http://infostripe.com but ran into issues of it not rendering as expected or when expected, the counter balloon having some CSS background issues. I'll try it again in a bit but I am disappointed so far with the implementation. Maybe it's getting crushed.. but it is Google..

mikecane 15y ago

I'm surprised WordPress.com wasn't on board with this at the start. It already has Like buttons (ugh) as well as Twitter, Facebook, etc. WordPress is otherwise great at getting its blog posts into Google results, so I figured this was a natural.

yahelc 15y ago

Best feature here: built-in support for callback functions. Makes Google Analytics integration seamless!

kaerast 15y ago

This has the same problem as Facebook Likes - you can create a +1 for a url other than the one you are currently on. And spot the javascript callback which encourages a '+1 this page to reach the video' setup.

olalonde 15y ago

In case anyone's wondering how to add the +1 button to their Posterous (which doesn't allow Javascript), feel free to use this iframe:  <iframe src="http://dev.syskall.com/plusone/?url={Permalink}&size=tall" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border:0;width:50px;height:60px;"></iframe> I'll publish the PHP script on my github[1] shortly in case you want to host it yourself. [1] https://github.com/olalonde/google-plusone-posterous https://github.com/olalonde/google-plusone-posterous

jarin 15y ago

Ok, I've added it to one of my clients' sites (NOT WORK SAFE http://www.dirtyhotproductions.com http://www.dirtyhotproductions.com NOT WORK SAFE). I'm not sure if anyone will use it on there (especially with the big warning about your +1s being publicly viewable), but here's hoping it boosts search engine rankings at least.

rglover 15y ago

Out of all of Google's social efforts, this is the most promising yet. What's unique about this is that (if they're keeping a search oriented business model) it could allow for a more social ranking system. In other words, after a link gets so many recommendations, it moves up in search. I for one would love a search feature where I could click "recommended" and see if anyone I know has had experience with the topic. Baby steps are imperative with this one.

bad_user 15y ago

Pff, doesn't work with Google Apps accounts, as these accounts can't have a Google Profile. So here is Google offering me the best and most useful online service I ever used (Google Apps), and they can't integrate it with their services properly.

MartinCron 15y ago
Not only that, it's the flavor of their services that you are paying for. Drives me crazy.
speleding 15y ago
I agree it sucks, but they did just announce on the Google Apps blog that it will be coming "shortly" to Google Apps

speleding 15y ago

Hmm, too bad that the HTML4 code they propose fails validation with my validator (Nokigiri) and the HTML5 code they propose doesn't seem to work on HTML4 pages. I solved it by mixing and matching the two: <div class="g-plusone" size="small" count="false"></div> This fails the official W3C validator but it works with Nokogiri. The odd way to set the language of the button {"lang":"de"} trips up syntax error marking in my IDE too.