Google+ 1 gets Annotations | Google+ update

Google is making the +1 button more social with the addition of friend annotations.

“You may have already noticed faces and names when you hover over a +1 button,” Google Developer Advocate Timothy Jordan said in a post on the Google+ Platform preview. “This change rolled out late last week. Now, you can make these recommendations even more visible to your users. Simply update the +1 button code, and an inline annotation will show next to the button.”

The new annotations appear when a user hovers over the +1 button. Hovering over it will display a list of friends and contacts that have already clicked the +1 button for that page. Google has also unveiled new code for the +1 button that will display the faces and names of friends that have used the +1 button.

The changes are small, but they will likely make the +1 button even more sticky and popular. The search giant will need to do more though to compete with Facebook’s button, which has become standard on millions of websites across the world.