Comments on: Google +1: What normal person would ever use it?

By: Google +1 button - the Buzz around it on Blogs | TuuBol.com - Blogging, Technology, Management and the Web

Thu, 26 May 2011 04:14:12 +0000

[...] Coles from the blog bearing his own name as the URL is worried. He thinks what normal person would ever use the Google +1 button to rank search results while searching for something [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 05 May 2011 08:09:54 +0000

+1 or -1 will just get abused much in the way that Facebook is now getting abused.

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40 Google +1 SEO Resources | SEOptimise — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 14:19:19 +0000

[...] Google +1: What normal person would ever use it? [...]

By: Gerry White

Gerry White — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:11:05 +0000

A minus one for spammy PPC would be better ... I am looking at you dodgy 0898 information lines for passports etc...

By: Asher

Asher — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:28:13 +0000

I agree with what is being said here. Makes no sense to the average user, BUT some people might like it and click it.. If you don't want it, don't log into your gmail.

By: Rich Harris

Rich Harris — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:14:25 +0000

Well this just got interesting - Techcrunch is reporting that someone found an embeddable version of the button hidden in the code. Not ready for primetime yet, but surely only a matter of days or weeks. And then SEO will change forever.

By: David Fairhurst

David Fairhurst — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:22:10 +0000

Very true, would make more sense to have an upvote and a downvote button in both results and on pages I guess. If Google give us the ability to demote in results and on sites though, would it prompt unscrupulous marketers to create multiple Google accounts and start demoting competitors of those sites they are promoting? I wouldn't be at all surprised if that were to happen!

By: Matthew J Houghton

Matthew J Houghton — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:03:56 +0000

Would be good to see them integrate the +1 as chromes bookmarking button to give the user something for pressing it. Or something along those lines as I agree that having a "good dead" button that only really increases the websites search ability seems a bit pointless for the everyday user...

And having on site is just going to lead to a whole load of ugly adverts..

"+1 our page for more content"

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By: Gonza

Gonza — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:01:30 +0000

The +1 button on websites will make the task easier for users, so they don't have to go back anywhere to click it. Also I think if google uses the +1 data to sort the search results -It will be like a "personalized pagerank"- and give more relevance to the ones that has more +1 clicks, the brands will focus on get a lot of +1's. When you see a Facebook Page, you also se how many likes a page has and it gives you an idea of "the more likes, the more important the page is", but you don't really know who likes that page or if those likes were bought. The most relevant/important information you should look on a Facebook page is how many likes the page has from your friends, that gives you an idea of how much you will also like that page. That's where I think Google is focusing, on how many people you know liked a page. And the difference is that most people has a lot of "friends" on Facebook that they really don't know, but the people you have on Google Contacts is people you communicate with on Gmail, Google Talk, etc.

By: Johnny Gedye

Johnny Gedye — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:44:42 +0000

I wonder how long before there are so many "vote this" buttons on web pages that they put users off?

I guess it all comes down to Facebook having a pretty hefty slice of the pie and the failure that was Google Buzz.