When it comes to innovations in social web, attempts made by google look pathetic.
+1’s: the right recommendations right when you want them—in your search results
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#42Google is late to the party, I thought they understood it when nobody used the 'buzz' button.
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#43I really surprised at Google by this implementation--it seems like they didn't really think it through. When I'm searching for something, my behavior is usually: Google search term Open the top couple results in a new tab Check each tab, to see if they contain the information I was looking for If tab is not useful, or more information is required, check next tab. If information is satisfied, close window (all tabs, i…
The video hinted that they plan to provide embeddable +1 buttons in style of Facebook's "Like". Considering that, +1 can actually be useful because you would be able to see recommendation from your google contacts.
Except the nomenclature is so nerdy. You can't really say it out loud. Like is a nicely descriptive verb; 'plus one' is a phrase you see on a formal event invitation.
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#44Anyone remember when Google Code blocked +1 comments?
http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=677
And now Google is adding +1 to their search results. Arrgh!
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#45Social search is likely the next killer app. The tastes of my friends are far more relevant to me than the judgement of bots. The question is, who will do it better: Google or Facebook? The search engine or the social graph?
Have you really thought this through? For example, here are 3 possible search queries: 1) Is Blockbuster Movie any good? Here the opinions of your friends might be more valuable to you, as valuable to you, or less valuable to you, depending on how important it is to you to have the same taste as your friends or whether you consider their movie tastes similar to your own. 2) Courtship rituals of early-modern spain Her…
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
The video hinted that they plan to provide embeddable +1 buttons in style of Facebook's "Like". Considering that, +1 can actually be useful because you would be able to see recommendation from your google contacts.
Except the nomenclature is so nerdy. You can't really say it out loud. Like is a nicely descriptive verb; 'plus one' is a phrase you see on a formal event invitation.
Yeah I am not sure I will use it except when an Apache project appears in the search results in which case I will probably just click it automatically...
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#47Social search is likely the next killer app. The tastes of my friends are far more relevant to me than the judgement of bots. The question is, who will do it better: Google or Facebook? The search engine or the social graph?
Have you really thought this through? For example, here are 3 possible search queries: 1) Is Blockbuster Movie any good? Here the opinions of your friends might be more valuable to you, as valuable to you, or less valuable to you, depending on how important it is to you to have the same taste as your friends or whether you consider their movie tastes similar to your own. 2) Courtship rituals of early-modern spain Her…
I think you are oversimplifying the concept. Take your second example:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...
IMO the most informative result on that page is third from the bottom: a JSTOR link to an academic article published in the journal Hispania. That's probably because I spend all day reading journal articles -- as do most of my friends. A smart "social search" algorithm would integrate that signal, along with whatever the bot returns, and promote that link for me and the people with whom I associate. By the same token, the majority of searchers would probably prefer the top link, which is an about.com summary of the topic.
I am as skeptical as they come regarding the "social" fad. But it's difficult for me to see how Google's search algorithms couldn't be improved by incorporating this stuff.
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#48I still don't get this. What does my social circle have to do with my Google searches. I am friends with lots of people who I don't trust to influence my search results. The Hunch approach makes a lot more sense where it uses recommendations of people who have similar tastes to me. People I am friends with is not a good proxy for people who's opinion I care about when searching for camera documentation, or dog breeds…
Exactly. Much of what's obligatorily "social" on the web is orthogonal to who my friends are, why they're my friends, and what I'm doing on the web at that time.
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#49I don't see my wife creating a google account so she can click +1 on a web page when there will be a facebook like button right next to the +1 button. Why would she? Her friends are on facebook.
This is a key point. Also, it's easy to "like" something if there is only one button. I feel I'm doing my friends a favor.
When there are multiple buttons, I feel like I'm doing work for the website operator. The only exception would be the case where the content is really so awesome that I feel the whole world needs to know about it.
My first thought after reading about how it works was "How can we consolidate all the vendors into a single 'like' button?"
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#50+1 A Like button integrated with search.
Awesome.