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Just last week, I wrote that Google+ was going to mess up the Internet by turning Web search into a popularity contest.

Didn't google revolutionize search over a decade ago by doing exactly that?

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I see what you mean. But at that time, Google results weren't tied to personal identities, which had no clear definition yet, and that's what this whole Google+ project has been about.

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