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?"

Comments

It works for *me*

[blind biker]

OK, maybe I'm a strange kind of person (probably, since I'm an aspie), but I really like this feature. I DO repeat the same searches, occasionally. Actually, relatively often. I'm too lazy to bookmark all the stuff I find, and I have a hard time searching through my bookmark tree for a specific thing. You know that a lot of your links can be put under different categories - and by the way, wouldn't it be great if bookmarks were slightly smarter, so you can create a kind of mindmap of bookmarks? Though I would probably be too lazy to organize them into a mindmap.

So, this feature does a lot of good for my style of browsing. Find the most interesting search results, promote them, remove the obvious sh*t and spam, and off I go. Then, when I do the same search again, a month or a week later... bliss! I have the most relevant-to-me hits at the very top, and no crud.

Thank you, Google.

For you who don't like this feature; what's so hard about just ignoring it? You don't like it, then don't use it. Can't be simpler, really.

Re:I had it yesterday but today it's gone

[Nicolas MONNET]

I am. And it's spelled "you're".