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What is so bad about this new system? You are worried that your site will not rank as well as good quality sites?
google shouldn't do this. I worry the webmaster will cheat to get that +1 in order to rank high on SERP
My opinion, the #1 thing missed by google is duplicate content. The other day I was looking for something on the internet, found a short article on a popular site that linked to the real article on another site. the real article should have been listed before the snipet article, but google gave the older site more credit. The main thing that google needs to do is stop indexing duplicate content sites. If someone post the article in 4 or 5 article directories, google should index the first 1 or 2, and then ignore the rest.