...and I also share my thoughts from an SEO perspective:

"Im intrigued by a number of possibilities here, not all of which are negative."

"First, one web sites vote down is anothers vote up," -Beal- explains. "Think about it. OK, so a user could vote down your web listing, but they could just as easily vote down your competitor. Now, instead of spending endless nights worrying about how to move from #2 on Google to #1, your target customer just did the job for you"albeit confined to their search browser only."

"Secondly, lets go with the worst case scenario and assume that a user voted down your listing in Google," Beal continues. "They would have done that anyway! OK, so now they have the option to actually vote you off the Google island but prior to this feature, they were mentally excluding you anyway"so youve not lost much."

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