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If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month
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Re: If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month
#32The concern, at least for me, is not that a "public" review being used in a "public" way, it's that these businesses are now paying Google for my review and I get no cut. When I wrote this review I didn't write it to help this business out, per se, I wrote it because I wanted to help potential consumers decide where to do business based on my experiences.
Re: If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month
#33Why has no1 mentioned how the ads will now take up EVEN MORE space? Another fail for publishers, a win for Google.
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#34The concern, at least for me, is not that a "public" review being used in a "public" way, it's that these businesses are now paying Google for my review and I get no cut. When I wrote this review I didn't write it to help this business out, per se, I wrote it because I wanted to help potential consumers decide where to do business based on my experiences.
Why did you put public in quotes?
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#35I am not really a fan of this (though it seems like not that different than what the review was meant for in the first place (unlike, say, construing a like on facebook as an endorsement of that thing), but complete lack of interest in associating myself with reviews of a company or product is why I don't write reviews with my G+ account in the first place), but I am a fan of publishing a diff of Terms of Service changes, especially with a nice plain-English summary at the top.
Of course, without this coverage, I don't know how the vast majority of people would have come across this page[1]. I don't appear to have been notified in my gmail account. To be fair, though, I've grown to hate the near constant ToS change emails I get from paypal, so there's some balance to be struck there too).
edit: actually, I take back my last point. I get a big blue bar on top of google.com notifying me of the change, and it's not even a "click here to see a ToS change" that I would never be interested in enough to click on, it's "Our new Terms of Service update how we display your information in content & ads." with a "Learn more" link. Still wouldn't want to be involved with the feature, but good for them for handling it like that.
Re: If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month
#36This actually doesn't seem terrible to me: If I published a public review on a product, why should Google not auto-match this up to a search result? That's the logical next step. It's what I'd expect from Google. I don't see anything privacy breaking about it of it's own... As long as the review was public, ofcourse -- or only being shown to those it was published to. That said, I just went ahead and opted-out of it…
What if you publish a negative review of a restaurant? Now it's super easy for them to find you and possibly harass you. What if you're in a marginalized group? Now online harassment can move into real world harassment if you've reviewed local places you enjoy. Lots of people are harmed by a "real names" policy: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Rea...
What if you publish a negative review of a restaurant? Now it's super easy for them to find you and possibly harass you.
That actually happened to a friend of mine, and he enjoyed it. Made the restaurant look even worse when he posted their infantile response.
Re: If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month
#37Am I the only one that sees the comedic potential in this?
Rate something 5/5. For example for a review of a restauraunt say "5/5. Sure beats eating rats infected with syphilis." or "4/5. Tastes like leprosy! Smells like porn locker!"
And I'm just being very bad here: http://www.amazon.com/Avoid-Huge-Ships-John-Trimmer/dp/08703...
Re: If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month
#38This actually doesn't seem terrible to me: If I published a public review on a product, why should Google not auto-match this up to a search result? That's the logical next step. It's what I'd expect from Google. I don't see anything privacy breaking about it of it's own... As long as the review was public, ofcourse -- or only being shown to those it was published to. That said, I just went ahead and opted-out of it…
What if you publish a negative review of a restaurant? Now it's super easy for them to find you and possibly harass you. What if you're in a marginalized group? Now online harassment can move into real world harassment if you've reviewed local places you enjoy. Lots of people are harmed by a "real names" policy: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Who_is_harmed_by_a_%22Rea...
What you mean like how people publish negative reviews right on the restaurant's Yelp profile?
Re: If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month
#39I am not really a fan of this (though it seems like not that different than what the review was meant for in the first place (unlike, say, construing a like on facebook as an endorsement of that thing), but complete lack of interest in associating myself with reviews of a company or product is why I don't write reviews with my G+ account in the first place), but I am a fan of publishing a diff of Terms of Service cha…
I just received a notification of that page in my G+ Notifications, so I think all G+ users will see it.
It's also being pushed to Google.com as a banner, if I understand correctly.
DISCLAIMER: I'm a Google employee, but I am not involved with any of these products.
Re: If you use Google+, you could become an ad next month
#40Disappointing. Facebook's decision to use people in their ads, and also automatically subscribe people to spam from Facebook Pages, has already made clicking the Like button a 'heavy' action—meaning I have to think about it before doing it, and most likely won't click nowadays. Google Plus is the same now. I used to consider handing out a quick +1 to any post I liked, or a cool site/service. But now, I have to think…
It is worth noting here that endorsements are only shared to the circles that can see the original review.
For an endorsement to appear to a user in search, that user has to have access to your review in the first place. Data that was once private is not being leaked publicly.