Google Quietly Launched +1 Globally

Google +1 is Google's way of getting social and beyond the mistake that was Google Buzz, and getting strong in the Google vs Facebook war by fighting the social network with a version of their own Like button

Back in December 2010, Google was reported to be toying around with a new social product ‘+1’ that was going to be like Facebook's Like button. This would make Google’s second attempt to expand their presence into social.
Today Google officially launched ‘+1’ as an opt-in social feature that resides on your Google searches. Simply share your google searches with your friends or everybody on the web. It gets better; Google, through +1 also seems to be rolling out social ads, which means users can recommend ads (or +1)

The +1 button h6

It’s a small +1 button that will sit next to all Google searches. If you like the result, you click +1 button & BINGO! This gets shared with your social circle & the rest of the web.

Social +1 Ads

So if Facebook is equal to social, this google’s new initiative is positioned to be social +1. The “social search” if u may call it, works with google ads as well. So’ lets say you like an ad and think that it may be useful for your friends, click +1 & highlight.
Will we ever end up using this ? We @ MensXP wonder!

The +1 data is public

This is where it gets slightly confusing. Google’s Matt Cutts in a recent statement made it very clear that +1 data is public. At the same time the + 1 button is positioned as a simple tool that lets users share with their social circles. This is confusing because Google isn’t really a social network. According to us @ MensXP, +1 would certainly enhance search results, and aggregated +1 data on Google India searches very shortly may perhaps highlight better search results.
While Google's social adventures (Google Buzz, Google Wave) were catastrophic, a soft-launch for +1 may help their social image issues.

+1 on MensXP.com?

For now, MensXP.com will not have a +1 button. Google seems to be taking things slow, and isn't releasing +1 for for publishers just as yet. But hold on to MensXP for India’s 1st rollout.

+1 on the Internet

Users may expect that google will be moving cautiously with this. Dont expect +1 smeared around your favourite websites just as yet. Come it will, but SLOWLY. Google expects the social search to be the eminent future of search. Since the roll out for +1 will be slow for bloggers & other content sites relying completely on “well done SEO” google just might be giving you a whole new set of tools to play with. (Just when you thought your content became social with the facebook like button & the retweet button) Are we likely to see a whole new industry “SSO- Social Search Optimization” come about ? MensXP is not sure of +1 being the answer to social search. Yet we remain positive.
Is +1 going to be Google’s magic number ? (MensXP.com)