Google to Put Wiki on Top of Search
ReadWriteWeb — ... Google put on a full court media push tonight for a major change the company is making to its search experience. According to the Official Google Blog and a very unusual email the company sent out to press, a new feature called Google Search Wiki will launch soon. We're not seeing it yet, but this is what it will do. ...

Google Launches SearchWiki
Mashable! — ... Google has launched a new feature to search for all searchers with Google accounts entitled SearchWiki. The new feature hasn’t propagated to any of our accounts here at Mashable yet, so I have no hands-on experiences to report, but from the description and the Google screencast, the feature allows you to re-order search result, remove and add links to a given search result, and annotate results within your queries. ...

Google allows users to change search results
The Inquisitr » Technology — ... In a post to the Google Blog, Google was quick to point at that the changes only affect your own searches, and have no effect on general search results. Interestingly though notes made against search results using the new feature will be available to other users by a “see all notes for this SearchWiki” link. ...

Google Makes Major Interface Change To Search: SearchWiki
TechCrunch — We’d noticed an increasing number of people emailing on a large-scale bucket test (a product change tested on just a percentage of total users) that Google has been conducting for months - adding a Digg-like voting feature to search results (which also changes the ranking) as well as user comments. Tonight, Google apparently said “what the hell” and turned it on for everyone. The changes are called SearchWiki, and are a dramatic departure from Google’s streamlined, algorithm-rules approach to search. ...

Google Unveils SearchWiki, Customizable Search Results
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... the new feature to most users, the added functionality can be negatively shocking when dealing with such a critical part of people’s routine internet “workflows.” Perhaps a business owner can negatively comment on his competitor’s company (and search listing) resulting in lost sales and potential lawsuits. Also, many believe the far cries begging Google to increase people’s privacy options are not being heard or addressed with SearchWiki. As Google explains, “The changes you make only affect your own searches.” However, simply click on ...

Google unveils Microsoft U Rank-like feature
The Microsoft Blog — ... promotions for its Live Search to put Google on its toes. Today, Google Search launched a feature very-much like one Microsoft prototyped last month. The Google feature, called SearchWiki , lets users customize Google search results by re-ranking them, editing them, or even deleting selected results. Users can also add notes to results. The changes are stored in a user's Google Account so only he or she sees the changes each time he searches. SearchWiki appears to be remarkably similar to a Microsoft Research project called ...

Tweak Your Google Search Results as You Like with SearchWiki
Profy — ... Today Google is finally rolling out its long-promised and long-tested by a large group of randomly-selected users SearchWiki functionality - this time for everyone to see and use. The functionality allows any Google user to customize search results for any search query by moving results up or down according to their relevance (as viewed by this user), deleting certain links from results if deemed not relevant, adding sites that are not in the results pages and also adding notes for various sites - for example, to describe why you think this particular website is helpful for ...

Google proves its search methods aren’t set in stone
VentureBeat — ... Google has released a new feature, called SearchWiki, that allows users to vote search results up or down, remove them entirely, or leave notes with their thoughts. While the rankings appear to only affect the account of the user who made them for now, the notes are public and readable by anyone, and seem to already be in use for discussions (see above). ...

Google launches personalized searches via SearchWiki; Scale, data equals fine experiment
Between the Lines — ... Google has launched an effort it calls SearchWiki, which allows folks to customize searches and move results. An example: Say you disagree with a ranking of a result. You can move it up. You can also add notes to the result. And you can also remove results. The mark-ups will then carry forward when you search again. Keep in mind that the changes only apply when you are logged into your Google account, says the search giant . Here’s a brief walkthrough. Say I do a search on Jamis road bikes and want to rate reviews. ...

Google SearchWiki: Customize your own search
D' Technology Weblog — ... Google has launched “SearchWiki,” a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don’t feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. ...

Google, It Wasn’t Broke
TechCrunch — ... In their blog post, Google says they’ve created a way to customize search results, and share (via the comments). They say they are striving to improve the search experience, and giving people tools to make search even more useful to them in their daily lives. ...

Google Now Lets You Upvote Results and Comment On Them
Google Blogoscoped — ... Also, once a result was upvoted, you’ll be seeing who else voted for this result, though it will only show compactly as e.g. “ 9 11 - Picked by Rat, Mr, yinan.wu, and others.” This may add a more social feeling to search results. (Google calls it a “community” in their announcement post on this, but we need to keep in mind how diverse this group is, even when they might have stumbled upon the same pages in results.) Note this field won’t show your full email address to others, but your nickname, which you can change on your ...

Google's SearchWiki - Can it work ?
SEO and Tech Daily — ...  For the most part, the features will be invisible to those not logged in. User interaction, whether it be comments on blogs (and /or offsite comments on Disqus or even Friendfeed) has gone mainstream in many spaces on the web. The announcement of Google Search Wiki was made on the 'Official Google Blog' and can be found here. ...

Google Lets You Roll Your Own Search Results (GOOG)
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Google (GOOG) is adding a feature to its search engine that could help it push closer to 80% market share: The ability to customize your search results. ...

I'm Surprised Google Made SearchWiki The Default, Really
Search Engine Roundtable — The blogosphere is buzzing about Google's announcement that they have made Google SearchWiki the default for users who are signed into Google while searching. What this means is that users will see features to promote, delete and comment on search results. This is advanced searcher stuff. I am really a bit surprised Google pushed this to every Google account user as the default. Why? (1) As Arrington said, it wasn't broken originally - well, some would disagree with that. (2) It is confusing for the average searcher, no? Do you think the average ...

Google SearchWiki
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... 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?" ...

Personalize Your Google Results
WebProNews Feed — ... SearchWiki Comments In addition, you can add and remove sites to your liking. So for example, if I want to search for my own web presence, but want to filter out other Chris Crums that aren't me, I can do so. [image] To get a better idea of how this thing works, watch the following video : Search Gets More Dynamic"This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic, giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives," says a post at the Official Google Blog . "We have been testing bits and pieces of SearchWiki for ...

Google Adds Editable Search Results
AppScout — ... For more information on the new feature, check out Google's blog. To see it in action, just log into your Google account and perform a search.

Customize Your Search Results Using Google’s New ‘SearchWiki’
Webmonkey — ... If you’ve been wanting a way to tweak Google’s search results to suit your whims, the company is granting your wish — you can now edit and rank Google search results. ...

So When Does Google Run Out of Ideas?
Technologizer — googlelogo“Have you ever wanted to mark up Google search results?,” begins a new post at the Official Google Blog . “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.” The post is introducing SearchWiki, a new feature that lets you rejigger Google’s results by shuffling sites around and adding ones that aren’t there. What it doesn’t ever do is explain the benefit of doing this tweaking. If you’re an avid hiker with a beloved trail map ...

Google SearchWiki Addition Fails to Wow
Today @ PC World — ... widely available). It's my guess that most average Googlers will be confused by what this tool does and struggle with why they should use it. Ultimately, it feels as if Google is working against its winning design formula of keeping things uncluttered and aesthetically clean. There are reports the option to opt-out of SearchWiki by refusing to hit the "Yes, Continue" button on a screen explaining the program. Others, like me, were not given this option and are now seem stuck with it ( no word on Google's official blog announcing WikiSearch on how to turn the feature off ). At ...

SearchWiki Search personalized by Google
TG Daily - All News — If you’ve ever had the desire to mark up your Google search results , that just might be possible now . Maybe you like foreign films, and the site you utilize to search is in third position and you’d like to see it at the top. Maybe you want to add notes about what you liked from the site, or why you think it is an excellent source. Beginning today, you can do all of this and tailor your Google searches to what suits your direct need or want. Google launched SearchWiki , which is a tool utilized to customize your search by deleting, adding, reranking, and even commenting on ...

Another Way for Google to Get Location?
Screenwerk — ... Related: Google’s SearchWiki customized search tool/program may do something like this as well. Individuals using it, which will be a minority of Google users, may disambiguate local results themselves and give Google more feedback that will eventually improve the display and ranking of local information. ...

Google: Algorithms Aren’t the Only Answer [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network — ... Google has finally pulled back the curtain on a new feature that until now has been in restricted beta: the addition of wiki-style functions in standard search results. Once logged into a Google account, this allows you to click a small up or down arrow to move a specific result, click and delete it from your search entirely, or click on a small comment bubble and leave your comments on that result. Google will remember those settings the next time you search for the same keywords, and has said it may even work for similar or related searches. In ...

Google SearchWiki a Genius Stroke to Keep Us in Google, Seeing Ads
Google Watch — ... Consider Google's publicly stated mission with SearchWiki: "With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong." ...

Google SearchWiki To Customize Search Results
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — In a move to deepen user engagement and enhance ad revenue potential, Google is opening up its search results to annotation, alteration, and public comment. Google on Thursday launched SearchWiki, a way to customize search results as they appear to one specific Google Account. Users can rerank search results, delete them, add new ones, and maintain notes about specific sites. "With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site," Google product manager Cedric Dupont and software engineer Corin Anderson explain in a ...

Google now lets TechCrunch pretend we don't exist [Toogle Many Googlers]
Gawker: valleywag — ... With a name like SearchWiki, you know it's going to be clever, yet stupid. Google has spent ten years and I don't know how many hundred million dollars refining a rocket-science algorithm for ranking Internet search results. Now, a few Google coders have whipped up a feature that lets you boost or cut the scores of individual websites from your own future searches. For example, grudge-o-matic TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington can click his own posts to the top of any Google search he performs. With one more click, he can remove ...

Web browser makeovers and why S&P is bullish on Google
BloggingStocks — ... , an incentive program with prizes for those willing to sift the Web via its search engine Live Search? Or the fact that yesterday Google announced a new way for users of its search engine to customize their results, ranking and annotating them? ...

Google Tests New Search Customization Feature: SearchWiki
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... Google's just-announced SearchWiki, despite its name indicating a focus on collaborative capabilities or a lightweight Web editing tool, is essentially a collection of customization tools for the Google search engine. Features include the capability to comment on search results, view other user comments, rearrange the search results, delete results to prevent them from appearing in similar searches, and have desired-but-missing URLs appear when conducting similar searches. With the exception of added comments, none of your actions will be seen by others or affect their search ...

Google: Here’s a new feature to help you serve us better
GMSV — ... serving the search sovereign as well. This works well as long as users, even those who know they’re being used, feel like they’re getting the better end of the deal — that any benefits to Google are a byproduct of a feature or service, not the primary purpose. But the quid pro quo balance of Google’s latest addition to its core search function strikes me as a little out of whack, on first look appearing more useful to the company than the users. Google is rolling out something called SearchWiki to supplement its search results. The feature, which becomes available when you’re ...

Will SearchWiki Give Google Even More Personal Information?
ChannelWeb Complete Feed — ... to see what the community at large is saying about a particular search result. Google's SearchWiki project , essentially, contains three new enhancements to any search a user performs. The most useful feature is the ability to customize the search result pages. For example, say you regularly perform a search for Italian Restaurants in New York City. After doing the search three or four times you might realize that one of the results in particular is the most useful to you. With SearchWiki you can move that result from the four or five spot of the results page to the top. ...

The Verdict On Google SearchWiki
Forbes.com: Technology News — Google 's clean search engine design that the majority of Internet users rely on received a major overhaul Thursday when the company officially launched SearchWiki, a service that turns search results into a Digg-like forum. Still rolling out across Google (nasdaq: ...

Google’s SearchWiki Is Here To Stay: Is This The Death of SEO?
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... from Danny Sullivan it looks like Google’s much talked about SearchWiki is here to stay. Most of the clammer about this new Google feature is focused around user’s inability to turn it off. While there are several ...

Google SearchWiki: Way above my TechnoDolt™ pay grade — but not yours
bookofjoe — ... Unveiled last week, it offers "... a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results." ...

Black Hats Salivate as Google Prepares to Add SearchWiki to Algorithm
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — Since the launch of Google’s SearchWiki there’s been much speculation about how this new feature would effect search engine optimization (SEO). Well, the black hats are going to have a field day when they read what Marissa Mayer has in store for SearchWiki. From TechCrunch, with my emphasis added: Mayer also talked about Google’s use of user data created by actions on Wiki search to improve search results on Google in general. For now that data is not being used to change overall search results, she said. But in the ...

Google’s SearchWiki Comes to the UK
The Next Web — ... In their original blog post, Google are hoping users will use the feature to bump up results which matter to them saving time and improving results in the longer run. Although “bumping’ has no effect on other users results, it’s highly likely the main objective is to further improve organic search results across the web based on the actions of it’s users. ...

Oh no, Google is killing Google Notebook
SolSie.com — ... SearchWiki - We recently launched a feature on Search that will let you re-rank, comment, and personalize your search results. This is useful when you’ve found some results on Google Search that were really perfect for your query. You can read about how to use SearchWiki in this blog post. ...

Is SEO's Demise On The Horizon
WebProNews Feed — ... conference, he said their brands were increasingly important signals that content can be trusted" So, having a brand might be a signal of quality, which may, in turn, lead to a higher rank. Or perhaps Schmidt was just playing to the audience of newspaper owners. Difficult to tell ;) Google collects a wealth of usage data from toolbars, analytics, and their ad systems, so it is conceivable they might fold these metrics into their ranking systems. Marissa Mayer recently suggested that SearchWiki data might be used ranking calculations. Will the bar get raised? Will SEO become ...

Wikia Death Proves Google is Search Startup Killer
Wired: Epicenter — ... In fact, Wikia even managed to force Google to adopt a Wikia.com-like feature in November that solicits user opinions on whether search results are relevant. ...

Even Social Search Needs an Algorithm: Arguing Against Data Entry As Search Engine
ReadWriteWeb — ... "[Google has] the vote-up technology already ready in waiting. They just need to tweak and start giving weight to all the data they have been collecting in SearchWiki notes for months already." ...

How to Kill Your Addiction to Google Search and Get More Productive
Fast Company - Technology — ... Who cares, right? Google works well enough, and it's added a lot of cool stuff over the years--SearchWiki, for example, is one of the coolest additions to hit search since PageRank. But like the lowly combustion engine, Google's search engine is meant for all-around people-pleasing, and it fails gloriously at more serious searches. The problem with its ubiquity is that it obscures tools that work better in specific scenarios; we can't even remember the names of other services because they're so damn tiny by comparison. ...

Kanye West Will Love Google Sidewiki
901am — ... Google usually learns about websites by silently watching user behaviors and link patterns. Soliciting sloppy human-generated metadata has never been their thing. They have good reason to stay away from that: you often learn a lot more from watching how humans behave than listening to them talk. That’s why Google SearchWiki was such a departure from the norm. Now Google bravely forges deeper into the social muck with ...

SearchWiki Live Stream
Google Operating System — If you're curious to see which web pages are voted in SearchWiki at the moment, add the SearchWiki Live Stream gadget to iGoogle. The canvas view shows the query that triggered each search results. I tried to see if the gadget shows all the SearchWiki votes: I promoted a site, but it wasn't included in the live stream. Most likely, Google shows a small a sample of the SearchWiki votes. For now, the SearchWiki live stream is the closest thing to the projection of current live search queries from Google's headquarters. Here's an excerpt from ...