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Google +1 button adds up to hot recommendations

You might have noticed a new social media button on the pages of this website. It’s the relatively new Google +1 button.

Why is it there? In Google’s own words it is shorthand for “this is pretty cool” or “you should check this out.”

If that’s the way you feel about our website (or any particular page or feature), by all means click on the Google +1 button. We will certainly appreciate your nod of support.

Google’s new social media button

When you click on the +1 button you publicly give something your stamp of approval. Your +1’s can help friends, contacts and others on the web find the best stuff when they search.

Here’s another way of looking at it. The +1 button is Google’s answer to Facebook’s “Like” button.

Applications such as the Facebook Like button and Google +1 are part of social media’s emerging age of peer reviews and recommendations. Rather than trust professional critics, we all have friends or acquaintances whose opinions and sensibilities we know and trust. If they’ve clicked the Like or Google +1 button it encourages you to check out the particular item or service.

The next time a friend of yours is trying to remember that boutique hotel you were raving about, a +1 could help out.

To +1 things you must first have a public Google profile. This helps people see who recommended that terrific restaurant or smoking-hot new blues band. When you create a profile, it’s visible to anyone, and your +1’s are stored in a new tab on your Google profile. But you have the option of showcasing your +1’s tab to the world, or keeping it private, using it strictly to manage the ever-expanding record of places and things you like on the World Wide Web.

You’ll also find the +1 logo next to Google search results.

Join the fun. If you like what you see, click on the Google +1 button at the bottom of this page.

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