Continuations: Google +1 Needs a Graph
This is some interesting insight from Albert. At first I thought the Google +1 was an interesting idea, a little but of a little brother, tag-a-long move, but an interesting idea, at least as an experiment.
BUT, what Albert points out is VERY interesting. Google is admitting that implicit data signals are seemingly not enough anymore. Could the underlying signal of this move be that something might be rotten in the state of denmark? Probably not, but something is up, and it’s more than just a new product called +1.
Adding an explicit signal button with +1 is an admission that the implicit data sources are not enough. Clicking on +1 is saying to Google explicitly: I think this is interesting. Now the real challenge for Google will be making this an actually useful signal.
