30 Days With Google+: Day 21

Google+ is still in limited “Field Trial” mode, which is fancy for “beta version”. That means that Google+ is still very much a work in progress, and that teams of developers at Google are hard at work tweaking and implementing new features for the social network. One such tweak that has been introduced during the 30 Days With Google+ series is a significant change for the +1 button.

Google is expanding the functionality of the +1 button.The +1 button has been around for a while now. Mostly, though, it has been a simple mechanism for gauging the value of a given site or article based on the number of +1 votes it has. If I am looking at two similar articles, and one has three +1s while the other has 323 +1s, I am more likely to click on the one with the 323 +1s.