Earlier this year I wrote an article about social search : search engines experiment with social media and integrate social media results into search results. Search engines are constantly experimenting to show users the most relevant results possible. After half a year an update on the field of (social) search and what the future of
Google +1
Google's own 'like' button: +1. Google sees the power of the Facebook Like button and has developed its own variant, the +1 button. The principle is the same: internet users can recommend pages by clicking the +1 button (see for morocco phone number list example at the bottom of this article). However, there is a warning for the +1 hype : the +1 button will certainly not have a major influence on search results, especially in the beginning. The difference between the +1 button and the Like button is that the +1 button also appears in the results in Google.com. For the time being, Facebook users can only 'like' pages and brands if they are on Facebook or if they are on a site where the social media plugin has been implemented.
Pages can be liked, +1'd, shared via LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg, Delicious and so on. In my opinion this is 'too much'. Users do not share articles via all these buttons. That is why I advocate a universal share button, where you indicate in advance via which media you want to share content.