Free ratings and reviews plugin... from google.

[Darren B]

OK on this page here http://www.kitesrus.co.uk/acatalog/d...wer_kites.html i have it setr to use duplicates as it is an MPP's the main products are on SPP's, i have created 5 product layouts and called them google 1, google 2 e.t.c and just changed the number in each of these everythign else is the same.

As you can see it now allows for product ratings on MPP's not to bad if you only have a few items but could take a while on longer pages. I have used exactly the same layouts on other MPP's and they work aswell.

I dont know if someone could come up with another way of allowing the same js to be run on the page more than once, perhaps using iframes or something similar.

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[george]

Maybe I need to see the light but I have a moral problem with Google getting their nosey fingers into my pie.

[Darren B]

Maybe I need to see the light but I have a moral problem with Google getting their nosey fingers into my pie.

I know were your comming from G, the problem is it is used by the masses and unfortunately there is little or no alternative

[chris ashdown]

Reviews look ok and can be helpfull for some technical items but cannot see them as much use on most items

I wonder how often you would have to monitor them for to take out bad reviews that could damage your whole company

Plus more and more control by Google, used to be MS taking over the world along with Tesco's now it is Google

[gabrielcrowe]

promise:

if google shuts down its opensocial hosting, then i'll start an opensocial server for actinic people.

they are only using openid. i have an openid server on interact studio.

the idea of widgets is not a new one. the only thing google have brought to the table, is exposure of an old idea.

i must admit, its a clever idea, and had me by surprise.

[acompton]

7:45pm

I have been hearing that Google is shutting down some of its free services so I personally would be wary of using this as reviews are valuable and I would hate to loose them if G decided to close the service.

10:45pm

I can see I'm going to be busy adding it to lots of sites over the next few weeks!

My! That's a fast about-face!

[Darren B]

Reviews look ok and can be helpfull for some technical items but cannot see them as much use on most items

I wonder how often you would have to monitor them for to take out bad reviews that could damage your whole company

Plus more and more control by Google, used to be MS taking over the world along with Tesco's now it is Google

Chris

i agree, reviews are not suited to everything, but you can limit posting to signed in people, you have the option to delete posts, and i bet as things progress it will improve no end, i see this only as a taste of what is to come.

I had a brief conversation yesterday with someone about it, and its another way for google to see what sites are popular, maybe collate data and use it for other things possibly se related who knows but one things for sure they are not doing this without some form of return.

[george]

They're watching you Daz.


*taps nose and winks*

[RuralWeb]

It's not an about face really as I still think that codepaths review software is better as you store the reviews and the are pushed to your desktop. Also it integrates with actinic so you can email buyers asking them to write.

The google thing is not only a review system there is a social widget that work with it as well so I plan to use that and keep the codepath review system there by getting the best of both worlds.

Some of my sites will run the google review system - I'm sat waiting for a client at the moment who will be adding it but I don't think it will be many. As gabe says it will almost certainly get better and we will see what happens.

[gabrielcrowe]

there is a better reason NOT to use google's offering.

SEO.

The reviews are rendered using javascript.

[RuralWeb]

They are but I have a page setup so I can see what happens when g caches the page. Codepaths reviews are all indexed ok which as you say is another good reason to use them.

[grantglendinnin]

It appears instead of Google caching the comments, it caches a nice block which states:


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Andy's got nothing to worry about unless you want to go for the cheap-skate method (no pun intended) which gives very few advantages.

[Darren B]

Andy's got nothing to worry about unless you want to go for the cheap-skate method (no pun intended) which gives very few advantages.

I think we are missing the point here, the review is one part of this. As Gabriel did at the start of the thread and Mal mentioned above and i did previously this is a social networking tool that will grow, in to what is anyones guess.

[grantglendinnin]

this is a social networking tool that will grow, in to what is anyones guess.

Yep. It's another clear conception that Google are looking to spy on you even more. Yes, in terms of internet technology, they are leaps and bounds ahead of everybody else. However, it's quality, not quantity, that counts.

IMO, Google need to fix their immediate concerns.

Here's a perfectly fine example:

The kids go to school and learn about birds. One particular breed has a promiscuous name with many a connotation.

So your kid wants to know more about it, Google's it - with Google set to 'Filter explicit images only - default behaviour'

And we all know exactly what they find.


Google's not so great now, is it? A market-leading friend of mine has lightly covered Google's Semantics in further detail.

As for the Adsense ads - not even safe enough to use Google's 'Strict Filtering' setting.

[Darren B]

Google's not so great now, is it? A market-leading friend of mine has lightly covered Google's Semantics in further detail.

I never said google was great? FFs what is it with people around here these days.