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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Finally, a Way to Formalize French-Bashing

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Search for French Military Victories and French Victories and use the new feature to make the first result www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html , which has a mock google page yielding 0 results and prompting to search for "French military defeats." Maybe if enough of us add this to the top of our search results via this new feature, google will actually implement it.