"If people legitimately like Google+ posts more than anything else on the internet, how would you have them behave?" So are you suggesting that might makes rig

"If people legitimately like Google+ posts more than anything else on the internet, how would you have them behave?" So are you suggesting that might makes right or that if a site is popular it should be able to outrank the original content source just because it is popular? Using this theory shouldn't Google check to see if Facebook has a similar post & rank that above the Google+ post whenever possible? ~~~ More seriously though, Google allows Google to create "relevancy" signals that are unique to certain pieces of content hosted on Google.com (or, at a minimum, over-represented among nepotistic sources), thus Google should aggressively discount that self-serving bias to error on the side of safety rather than setting up platforms that make it really easy to "accidentally" plagiarize content. Obviously Google biz dev people realize the above self-serving bias & will do nothing to correct it, but it isn't a fact that should be ignored in public debate. At least not if we want to have an honest debate.