Comments on: Google SearchWiki brings custom search results

Company gets a taste for collaborative search: SearchWiki lets people promote Web sites they like, delete ones they don't, and share comments.

[wango2007]

"Certainly people's collective behavior could be useful [to change rankings]."

This new plan by Google will enable companies to smash their competitors, it seems.

Soon SEO experts will be hired not only to improve organic search results, but also to downgrade competing sites.

[lonestarState]

It sounds like a nightmare a search engine which works like digg. One day you are on top and the next day you are done. I will stick to building my own search engine at BuildaSearch.com.

[new_media_works]

I guess it's too late to get the miserable failure problem fixed, but I I guess now Google may learn a thing or 2 about "wiki wars" ... either that or it's just "window dressing"

[jackdaniels08]

@new_media_works. Calm down. I believe this is more of an enhancement to tweak and personalize things to a laser pinpoint. You almost sound like Google is scrapping their whole search engine. Your cognitive mindset is fixed so black and white. Google's algorithmic model will always be the central solid base infrastructure framework on which substructural minutia such as this is to be built upon.

[Dean_Ansari]

This is a copy of what our search engine AnooX introduced some years ago.
Although with AnooX the votes that you do to change the search results are instantly visible
to all, that is with AnooX the Wisdom of Crowd does change the search results not just
for those who have Voted but for all. But still this is a very cheap copying (stealing) an
idea that AnooX pioneered some time ago.
It is amazing how the Big Media does not give credit to AnooX for having pioneered search
engine powered by the knowledge of the people.

[vjlenin]

Indeed, the search wiki offers new ways for Google to better its index. I see as you mentioned, removing spam results by high volume of user removal a great new way to improve index. But isn't it open to manipulation by spam parties? For instance, if people open huge number of Google account and start to remove specific search results or adding specific search results?

Here is <a href="http://cutewriting.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-searchwiki-wiki-search-feature.html">a review of Google searchwiki I wrote</a>.

[vjlenin]

Indeed, the search wiki offers new ways for Google to better its index. I see as you mentioned, removing spam results by high volume of user removal a great new way to improve index. But isn't it open to manipulation by spam parties? For instance, if people open huge number of Google account and start to remove specific search results or adding specific search results?

Here is my review of searchwiki: http://cutewriting.blogspot.com/2008/11/google-searchwiki-wiki-search-feature.html

[yeapmadhu]

Hai i cant Access the Search wiki Features . After Login in my google Account , i cant See the + and Other Option after the Results . I get the Old Search itself . How can i get the Google Search Wiki Features