Googe +1 button

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... After adding the +1 button, the rest of the pages got indexed in 2 days...

If that holds true for everybody, I foresee lawsuits. Someone would allege abuse of a dominant market position by Google favoring +1 compared to its rivals.

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If that holds true for everybody, I foresee lawsuits. Someone would allege abuse of a dominant market position by Google favoring +1 compared to its rivals.

I can't see any such lawsuit getting traction in the courts, if even admitted to be heard. Google provides many avenues by which a site can improve the indexation of its pages... Tweets and Likes had essentially the same effect recently. I see no validity for a claim of abuse there.

Granted, there seems to be a witch-hunt in progress against Google, much like that launched against Microsoft a few years back. In the M$ cases, though, I think there was a valid antitrust issue, whereas in this instance, I see just more of the same being offered to +1 clicks as is offered to other SM signals.

Obviously, that doesn't mean someone won't try. We're a litigious lot!