Yes, it was called PageRank. surely google's real "plus one" is it's page rank. a mechanism which is far more sophisticated and less prone to fickle bias. why

Yes, it was called PageRank. surely google's real "plus one" is it's page rank. a mechanism which is far more sophisticated and less prone to fickle bias. why do we need an additional method to say "i like this website". the backlinks and google's original algorithm back in 1996 was supposed to be this innovation.