People went crazy with the introduction of facebook like button. Its plugin was being used on most websites and users all over the world continued clicking it and are still at it. I am not against it, duh!...honestly, I use it too. But, I cannot forget that You tube had the rating system much before it. Moreover, it still is ahead of facebook, since it allows us to both like and dislike a video. So, I was about to credit them for it.
But what's this? Another article says that there were others who thought about these thumbs up and thumbs down icons much before YouTube or Facebook. Yeah! even I had no idea about that...those sites were Stumble upon and Urban dictionary.
Anyways, that is not why I started writing this today. What I wanted to say is (although it has been said before), that I dont like the Google's +1 icon. Firstly, it doesn't come even close to the like button. Secondly, it some how doesn't have a familiar appeal...haan, if google gives it a companion -1 icon, then maybe I will use those links, but right now...nah! They dont lure me. Its just like the unwanted preview icon (magnifying glass) at the end of each search result...clobbering the google results page. Someone make them as an add-on instead of forcing these new icons on users. By doing this, google is slowly following into Microsoft's path who change everything in their subsequent product releases leaving the users lost.
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