searchengineland.com - 11/20/2008
—
Google will announce today ( Update: official announcement ) the launch of SearchWiki, a major addition to its user interface that allows users to edit search results. When using SearchWiki, you can re-order, remove, or add web pages to the search results for any query. You can also add notes to ...
googleblog.blogspot.com - 11/21/2008
—
googleblog.blogspot.com —
Have you ever wanted to mark up Google
search results? Maybe you're an avid hiker and the...
trail map site you always go to is in the 4th or 5th position and you want to move it to the top. Or perhaps it's not there at all and you'd like to add it. Or ...
(more)
Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own
techcrunch.com - 11/21/2008
—
techcrunch.com —
Bucket tests and experimental products are one thing.
But to mess with the real Google search is...
serious stuff. Why did they do it? Google’s overall search share has grown substantially this year (and all other years since it went live). ...
(more)
Google, It Wasn’t Broke
googlesystem.blogspot.com - 11/21/2008
—
googlesystem.blogspot.com —
As anticipated last month , Google's experiment that
lets you reorder and annotate search results is now...
live. Google SearchWiki should be available automatically if you are logged in to a Google account and it's recognizable by the visual clutter ...
(more)
Google SearchWiki Launched
Comments
Blog Reactions
Google's SearchWiki Set For Roll Out
Google Watch —
... Search Engine Land's Matt McGee has been briefed and whitelisted for the feature. He does a fine job explaining what SearchWiki will look like when it launches to more people today: ...
Google Now Lets You Upvote Results and Comment On Them
Google Blogoscoped —
... ” page.) However, Google indicates in statements provided to Search Engine Land that they won’t completely rule out the possibility of this impacting everyone’s rankings in the future: ...
Google Launches SearchWiki for Custom-Ordered Search Results [Google]
Lifehacker —
... adds two buttons to the right of each result that let users move their favorite or most relevant results to the top spot or kill out a result entirely for their page only , as well as add notes for yourself on certain results and add entirely new results to that crucial first page. You'll be able to see and undo any changes you make, of course, and the aggregates of other users' actions (x voted up, x removed), and while they're just for your information right now, Google engineers have said they might consider letting group decisions impact global results. I don't have ...
Linkpost | 11.21.2008
TechBlog —
... podcast downloads, improved call reliability, return to first home screen from any other home screen by clicking home button. • Orb 2.0 brings live television streaming to iPhone, no jailbreak needed - Though it requires a TV tuner card in a PC, not a Mac. • 19-year-old Commits Suicide on Justin.tv - Student was egged on to take pills after he threatened to kill himself. • AMD Sneak Peeks Phenom II, Overclocks To 5+GHz - Launching in early January. • Google SearchWiki Launches, Lets You Build Your Own Search Results Page • Mozilla has IRS ...
Google: Algorithms Aren’t the Only Answer [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... rampant gaming and manipulation? Of course they will — just like everything else that the search giant touches. When you wield as much power online as Google does, gaming and manipulation follow in your wake like pilot fish following a shark. Presumably, the company has taken that into account, and will use their resources to reduce gaming as much as possible. And meanwhile, they will use the results of all that clicking to teach their engine a thing or two about human search behavior. ...
Google: Here’s a new feature to help you serve us better
GMSV —
... site. In the real world, the comments section is more likely to fill up with enough spam, trolling, me-too’s, non-sequiturs, self-promotion and other miscellaneous cruft to discourage a hunt for value. What both these functions do most obviously is benefit Google. The company says the re-ranking that goes on through SearchWiki won’t have any effect on the order of results in normal search — for now — but you know this massive quantity of fresh data is not going into a black hole. Matt McGee of Search Engine Land broached the subject with Google Product Manager Cedric Dupont. ...
Related Content
Google SearchWiki
googlesystem.blogspot.com 10/29/2008 — Google's experiment that allows users to vote and annotate search results is back and this time it has a name: Google SearchWiki. Justin Hileman is one of the lucky people who has access to the experimental feature: "Things are a bit smoother this ...
Google SearchWiki
battellemedia.com 11/21/2008 —
So here we go - Google is jumping into the social media search world. "SearchWiki" is Google's answer to the question "Why can't I make search work the way I want it to work, and share/learn from others doing the same thing?"
But one wonders ...
Google Personalizes Search with SearchWiki
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 11/20/2008 — A new feature lets Google users change the results they see for specific Google searches and revisit their changes and comments later.
Turn Google SearchWiki on / off
facesaerch.com 11/23/2008 — Last Thursday Google launched a new feature called SearchWiki and well, it sucked. in my opinion. They turned a perfect clear-purpose product into a noisy icon-dessert which you can’t easily opt out .
I look at Google like 10.000 times a day, i ...
Google SearchWiki 101: An Illustrated Guide
searchengineland.com 11/21/2008 — — a new feature that allows you to move and comment on search results — has been out for less than a day, and it’s amazing to see how much confusion (as well as commentary ) there is already developing. So below, some clarification on how it works, ...
Google SearchWiki Is Back. Here’s How To Kill It For Good.
techcrunch.com 11/23/2008 — Cheers were heard across the Internet earlier today when Google’s new SearchWiki search interface inexplicably vanished . Perhaps, just maybe, it was gone for good. Or at least when it returned it would have an opt out feature.
Nope. Neither. ...
How would you rate Google SearchWiki?
guardian.co.uk 11/21/2008 — It's been coming for a while, but Google has launched its search listing recommendation system, SearchWiki . Right now users who are logged in can push results up, or ban them from future listings (but only for themselves)... or they can leave ...
Defending Google
buzzmachine.com 11/17/2008 — Tuesday night, I’m joining in an NPR Intelligence Squared debate - Oxford format - on the motion, Google violates its “don’t be evil” motto . I’m speaking against - surprise, surprise. Esther Dyson and and Jim Harper of ...
Q&A With Google On SearchWiki (Don’t Expect An Opt-Out Soon)
searchengineland.com 11/25/2008 — Four days after it launched, Google SearchWiki continues to attract much attention from critics and fans alike . Meanwhile, there remain questions on how it all works, under the hood. Below, a follow-up to my Google SearchWiki 101: An Illustrated ...
★ iPhone-Optimized Google Search Results
daringfireball.net 11/19/2008 — On the desktop version of Safari, when you use the built-in Google search field, you get pretty much the exact same results as when you go to google.com and enter your query the old-fashioned way. The toolbar search field is just a more convenient ...
Google - the world's first firewalled monopoly —
The Register 11/20/2008
Pricing power goes virtual Antitrust 2.0 Why did Google leave outgoing Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang heartbroken at the search engine altar? If you believe the words chief ad broker and CEO Eric Schmidt funneled through The New York Times ...
Follow TechBlips on Twitter
