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Google have officially launched the SearchWiki, as announced yesterday on Official Google Blog.
[...]we’re launching SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site. You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don’t feel belong.
SearchWiki is available to logged-in users and all your changes are stored in your Google account, so the next time you log-in you will see the previous changes you have made to certain results. The changes you make affect only your results, but you can also see how the community edited the same results that you have performed by clicking on the “See all notes for this SearchWiki” link.
The Google SearchWiki is available in English language for now (at least Polish version is not available yet), but probably soon other languages will also see that feature.
Here is a small video describing the Google SearchWiki features.
What is the impact of SearchWiki on Search Engine Optimization?
Search engine optimizers, or SEOs, who help companies improve their search engine rankings, should not rush to start manipulating SearchWiki—at least not yet. Ms. Mayer said that SearchWiki comments and re-rankings will have no affect on the Google algorithm and how it ranks sites for the general Google audience. “At this time we aren’t using SearchWiki to influence ranking but it is easy to see how that could happen in the future” she said - NYT.
For now Google does not consider any changes users make to results, but in the future it will change. How will Search engine optimization change when it happens? I’d love to hear you thoughts about that.
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channel marketing strategy (1 comments.)
November 21st, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I have logged in and out of multiple accounts and I can’t get it to work, I’d like to test it out to see if it does what it says it does.
What’s the point of this? It seems cool and may be useful but there must be some greater importance…
Pawel Szulencki (171 comments.)
November 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
@channel marketing strategy: You must log in through the english language version of Google in order to see the SearchWiki and be able to use it. It works for me.
Whats the point?
I believe that Google is doing exactly what Digg is doing. Promote the best stories (websites) based on user ratings. Google will do the same in the near future. That means that a website will be ranked in Google based on onsite and offsite factors + website ratings in Google SearchWiki.
uk immigration (1 comments.)
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:54 am
Well the user rating website ranking will definitely save a lot of time for the people who use Search Engine a lot.
Its Importance to me is to get the desired result in minimum time.
Christo (2 comments.)
November 25th, 2008 at 10:45 am
@Pawel
Yes I agree.I think results will be based on page ,off page and user ratings.
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