Google +1 Button: Now On A Websites Near You, Next To The Facebook 'Like'

As of June 1, Google social button will grace the pages of websites and make sharing content easier among Google users.

This Google +1 button will appear on third-party news sites like The Huffington Post, Tech Crunch, Reuters and more. Google properties like Blogger, YouTube, and the Android Market will also feature this sharing button soon.

The button will appear alongside social sharing features from other social networks, chiefly Facebook's "Like" and Twitter's "Tweet" buttons, and will function in much the same way.

A post on the Official Google Blog explains the feature thus:

With a single click you can recommend that raincoat, news article or favorite sci-fi movie to friends, contacts and the rest of the world. The next time your connections search, they could see your +1's directly in their search results, helping them find your recommendations when they're most useful.

You can enable the +1 feature via Google's experimental site. The feature will work only if you're signed in to your Google profile, from which you can manage your +1 recommendations and history.

The search engine initially introduced this Google +1 feature in March for sharing search results and advertisements.

Check out The Huffington Post's Google +1 button (below), and read on to learn more about the button's features.

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Comments

[Tenpm Views]

07:08 PM on 06/02/2011

Just added the Google Plus 1 button today to my bog at http://10pmviews.blogspot.com/ and haven't seen much take up really. Although as Google isn't strong on social media I didn't expect there to be. In the long term think their new social media strategy is going to shake thing up with the integration into search results. I also added the new Twitter follow button this week which had instant results and I would highly recommend.

[bkerensa]

09:10 PM on 06/01/2011

Say Hello to "me" the first developer to create a Wordpress plugin that offers Google 1 and all other social networks for your blog.. Just minutes after the Google 1 went public! :)

[jacobwg]

08:31 PM on 06/01/2011

For those of you who use WordPress, I just wrote a plugin to add the 1 button automatically. Hopefully it will be in the WP Plugin Repository soon!

Download it and let me know what you think here: http://blog.jacobwg.com/wp-plus-one/

[bkerensa]

09:11 PM on 06/01/2011

I developed a plugin minutes after its launch but it includes all social networks :) its not free though :)

[jacobwg]

09:18 PM on 06/01/2011

It include Forrst? Just kidding... :)

Nice job on your plugin, though.