Google Turns On User-Tweakable Search Wiki

Barence writes "Google has launched a new service that allows users to tailor to their own search results. Called SearchWiki, the service allows Google account holders to move results up or off the rankings, or even add their own choice of site to the top of the search results. Google claims that any changes a user makes will only affect their results, and not those of fellow surfers, although it's difficult to believe that some of the feedback generated from the SearchWiki won't be used to fine tune the Google search algorithm. Is this a cunning way to encourage people to sign in while they search, thus providing Google with a richer set of data that can be mapped to specific user accounts?"

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Re:What is the point?

[skroops]

Make edit 2 or you're lying

Re:A blessing and a curse.

[TaoPhoenix]

Profiles!

Aggregate the tweaks into related sets:

PowerResearcher. You want to know a graph of when every linux distro was released, sortable by distro or date.

MediaFan. Defaults to **AA-compliant (but one Oops-Leaked hack allowed other stuff in). Only music/art/lit/movie/other cultural results.

TurboIdle. Entertain me! You want to see episodes of Stargate SG1 subtitled in ancient Egyptian Heiroglyphics by some dude at the British Museum. Also return episodes of Buffy episodes with Brian Thompson and soap operas sorted by Cuteness of leading man.

GeekOverlord. Quad boot your flavor of Linux, OS X, a dev copy of Win 7 alpha, and Amiga OS 5. Interview with the guy from New Zealand who built a radiation visualizer so he could laugh at the end of the world.

Wait for it...

AssHat! http://asshat.com/

Re:What is the point?

[4D6963]

The outrage! Pretending to be able to edit Slashdot comments was invented by Shampoo^H^H^H^H^H^H me!