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What benefit do I get from +1'ing something? It doesn't go in my stream, it doesn't affect anything that I know of... Why would I do it? It's like they imple

What benefit do I get from +1'ing something? It doesn't go in my stream, it doesn't affect anything that I know of... Why would I do it? It's like they implemented it without have any idea why the customer would use it... They were just copying other people... Badly. And while we're on the topic of sharing, why doesn't Google Reader send shared items to G+ yet? It has sent it to Buzz for quite a long time, and Buzz isn't even popular.

yalimgerger 15y ago
Ohhh...don't event get me started with Reader. Sharing articles in Reader deserves its own blog post. It looks like the entire UX for sharing is designed to make the user feel helpless. I cannot imagine a non tech user being able to share anything with anyone in that UI. We literally had to involve several software engineers the first time we tried to set the sharing settings among each other.
- sorbus 15y ago
  It's really not that hard. You go to the Sharing Settings, you choose which lists of people you want to see the items you share (admittedly, making a list does require going to Google Contacts, which that page links to), and then when you see an item you want to share you press the share button. I would much rather that it integrate with G+, or at least allow selection of which groups I want to be able to see a single item rather than just being able to decide who gets the entire stream, but I find it very difficult to believe that you required "several software engineers" to set it up. Of course, it's very fashionable to hate Reader, as it has been for a while.
  - yalimgerger 15y ago
    Actually, except for the setup of sharing, I love it.
edwardy20 15y ago
The benefit is that it (allegedly) improves your search results. If someone in your social circle +1'd something, it affects your search results.
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- megrimlock 15y ago
  If that's the case then I wonder if my search results will end up populated solely by witticisms and novelties. In my experience so far +1 seems mainly used as a polite nod or chuckle, because its primary effect is that it's visible to the person who said the thing you approve of. Something like del.icio.us seems much more likely to identify timeless great content worth sharing -- it's a bookmark to come back to rather than a nod of social approval. If you were designing a search algorithm it does not seem like you want want to give much weight to an embedded easy approval button (reddit, digg, +1, like, etc.) compared to something that requires more investment of someone's time and thought, like making a del.icio.us bookmark. I mean, half the time you have to go try to remember what your password was, then have them send you a password reset mail, then re-login -- now that's a bookmark I care about.
Goladus 15y ago
> What benefit do I get from +1'ing something? The link shows up on your Google profile, in the "+1" section. It's would be fairly convenient way of sharing bookmarks, if anyone used Google profiles.

yalimgerger 15y ago

Ohhh...don't event get me started with Reader. Sharing articles in Reader deserves its own blog post. It looks like the entire UX for sharing is designed to make the user feel helpless. I cannot imagine a non tech user being able to share anything with anyone in that UI. We literally had to involve several software engineers the first time we tried to set the sharing settings among each other.

sorbus 15y ago
It's really not that hard. You go to the Sharing Settings, you choose which lists of people you want to see the items you share (admittedly, making a list does require going to Google Contacts, which that page links to), and then when you see an item you want to share you press the share button. I would much rather that it integrate with G+, or at least allow selection of which groups I want to be able to see a single item rather than just being able to decide who gets the entire stream, but I find it very difficult to believe that you required "several software engineers" to set it up. Of course, it's very fashionable to hate Reader, as it has been for a while.
- yalimgerger 15y ago
  Actually, except for the setup of sharing, I love it.

edwardy20 15y ago

The benefit is that it (allegedly) improves your search results. If someone in your social circle +1'd something, it affects your search results.

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megrimlock 15y ago
If that's the case then I wonder if my search results will end up populated solely by witticisms and novelties. In my experience so far +1 seems mainly used as a polite nod or chuckle, because its primary effect is that it's visible to the person who said the thing you approve of. Something like del.icio.us seems much more likely to identify timeless great content worth sharing -- it's a bookmark to come back to rather than a nod of social approval. If you were designing a search algorithm it does not seem like you want want to give much weight to an embedded easy approval button (reddit, digg, +1, like, etc.) compared to something that requires more investment of someone's time and thought, like making a del.icio.us bookmark. I mean, half the time you have to go try to remember what your password was, then have them send you a password reset mail, then re-login -- now that's a bookmark I care about.

Goladus 15y ago

> What benefit do I get from +1'ing something? The link shows up on your Google profile, in the "+1" section. It's would be fairly convenient way of sharing bookmarks, if anyone used Google profiles.