Yet another "Like" button

Google has introduced own Facebook-"Like" button named "+1".
Yet another "+1" button...

Have a look at the article on CNN.com announcing it:
http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/30/technology/google_button/index.htm

It has 9(!) links with partially duplicated functionality to share this article.
With Google's it will be 10. Too many, as for me. How do you think?

Also considering various integrations supported by many social applications like
Facebook <-to-> Twitter <-to-> LiveJournal <-to-> LinkedIn <-to-> Facebook -- for more and more people that becomes irrelevant to make this choice. Because any choice will produce the same result. I do not see any reason for this number of "like and share it" links. That amount produces minimum value for end-user (read contributors) and noises web-pages.

However that's a political move, that's clear. That's pity that companies like Google always being thinking about the end-user first start to produce things which are good for Google, less for googlers.