November 20, 2008

Google SearchWiki Launched

Written by: Juanchito
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I was searching Google today and I saw some new features I’d never seen before. I started clicking around and found out that it was something called SearchWiki. I thought maybe it was just something that was integrated with Google’s Chrome browser or something, but Techcrunch is reporting that it was turned on for everyone.

The cool part is that you can modify the search results for common searches you do. I know I already have a few searches I’m going to modify. Will save me scrolling. It will just be interesting to see whether Google will use this data as part of their algorithm of results. Will people try to game Google more by removing websites and adding others.

One other feature I wish they’d add is a button that would let you reset the search results to Google’s results. Maybe I wanted something at the time, but later I might change my mind. Or maybe I just want to know which sites Google considers the best for a certain topic. I like to see where my website ranks on given topics and if I just push my site to the top, then I’ll lose that information. Well, at least I won’t know it unless I log out of my google account.

Check out this video describing the new features of SearchWiki:

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