Google Search Wiki?
Today I noticed two very unique changes in how I used Google. One, I was suddenly noticing that I could change around the search results from what I was initially presented with. Seems cool enough, considering this basically ensures that whatever Google’s idea of SEO is could be shot to heck with people moving around personal results to best suit them. Great for the user, a total pain in the but for webmasters I suspect…
Either way, I am enjoying my new Gmail themes. Hoping to see this open up to the public here soon. Imagine the craze there was for creating themes for MySpace in the Gmail world — it would be a feeding frenzy for developers like seen with Facebook, that is for sure.
Despite the search wiki only being available for some people and not others thus far, along with the fact that it only makes changes for that individual user, I believe it will shake search to its very core for everyone.
3 Comments
Creator
November 21st, 2008
at 7:17am
What a user does with his own search result won’t affect what others will see. The algorithm used by Google to generate search results won’t be affected. At least, not that directly.
nikhi
January 5th, 2009
at 4:15am
It seems many people are not using it.
Romana
March 18th, 2009
at 10:49pm
Seems like a swell feature to me, and i have been using it from quite some time. But this initiative really lacks the collaborative search feature which are provide by microsoft searchTogether as explained in one of article i came through. http://www.abhishekmehta.com/apache-roller-4/blogs/date/20090309
I am wondering next logical step for SearchWiki would be a collaborative search platform based on buddies in google gtalk list.