I recently came across this new feature Google is about to include. They are calling this "+1" while some people say this is inspired from Facebook "Like" button.
What this +1 is that a visitor on Google would see a +1 button along all the Google search results that one does. Now if one likes (or finds) a particular site/s relevant or useful or good they can hit the "+1" button and this gets displayed to all the Google Contacts one has. This also gets displayed to all other users running similar searches on Google.
In effect what this means is that a visitor's contacts get to know what/which particular site their contact found useful while to the other visitors on Google this could be just something like a guide or a user/visitor rating :)
There are similarities between Facebook "Like" button and Google "+1" where the friends get to know what one "liked/+1ed" but the similarities end here only (for now) ;)
Google is a search engine and Facebook is not. Google would display the "+1s" publicly (for obvious reasons) and Facebook does not.
There are also words going around that Facebook is progressing fast on their plans to have their own Search Engine but till the time this does not happen the "Like" and "+1" are distinct things for the simple reason that Google (i.e. Search Engine) is ever evolving and has to decide on "how" to consider visits/site hits based on Facebook "Like" button...for site ranks,listings etc...
This seems to have been the reason that Google understands well and has included its own "+1". This is more like let the people decide what they like !! :)
More details at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAyUNI3_V2c
very good job keep it up
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