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Sunday, April 10, 2011

Google vs Facebook !

Google is constantly doing its best to improve its search engine and one of its latest features just introduced is the +1 button. They say, this might be Google's answer to Facebook. There have been all sorts of rumors related to this button, but since this button is available for experimental use, we decided to share more information about it.

Basically, +1 button allows you and your friends to like a certain webpage that is listed in your search results. This makes searching a bit easier, since you’ll be able to see how many and which friends liked that particular link. According to Google, we can use +1 button with our search results or ads, and in the future, we’ll see +1 button on other sites as well, so we can like the pages that we’re reading instantly with a single click.



We have to notice that +1 button looks quite familiar to that of Facebok’s, but so far, it’s in experimental phase, so if you want to try it out, you’ll need to sign up for it with your Google account.

Following are some requirements to use this feature:

Google profile:
You need a Google profile to use +1 feature, if you don’t have any profile you can create from here.

Make sure you’re signed into your Google Account:
This feature also required that you have be signed in to your Google Account so that your name can be listed along with the search results or the name of your friends can be shown, if don’t have any Google account you can create it from here.
This feature is in its initial stages they are slowly rolling it out to Google.com in English, they are also planning to show the recommendations from your friend which are on other social networking site like twitter or may be other so that you can get the most relevant recommendations.
As Google is slowly rolling out this feature it may not be available to you but you can try this feature by visiting Google experiment site.
I think this feature will be very useful as you don’t have to check every search result to find the best one, by using this feature you have to only check that how many of your friends or other people recommends it(+1’d this), saving your lot of time and bytes.

25 comments:

  1. Great post! I hope you keep up this excellent blogging! :)

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  2. Google has no enemy in Facebook. They dominate the internet

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  3. I don't use my Google account that often, but I'll check it out for sure

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  4. Soon google will take control over the world ;)

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  5. Man, I wish the two could live together

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  6. Shit, facebook is spreading like a disease...

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  7. Let's see how this new feature turns out.

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  8. this will make it hard (impossible?) for facebook to have the best search based on likes. nice one from google, i actually like and use the +1 button. nice blog. following.

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  9. good post, didn't know about that

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  10. Google will always win! :D

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  11. Google overlords will always win.

    I tend to think Google looks at competitors as those little kids who might grow up some day... and they mock them for fun on the playground :-D

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  12. Google is going to concur the world soon...but it is impossible to defeat google so hard luck facebook....

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  13. someday google is going to acquire fb

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  14. It's like everyone is under watch by some social network.

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  15. i wish i invented facebook...well atleast i just started following your blog!

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  16. hehe, im the only one in my grade who dosnt have the facebook.^^

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  17. oh god, the like button is taking over

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  18. Wow, this +1 will make searching with google more interesting :p
    I installed the app already XD
    Thanks!

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  19. I was reading about this last week actually. It's only a matter of time before Google come out with a Facebook-like social networking site. And, being Google, it will kick Facebook's ass.

    I still don't know whether I completely trust Google. Or any big name with power....

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  20. I'm pro google all the way, I deactivated my facebook account a few months ago and haven't looked back. This would be a great feature google should implement

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