Another new innovation from Google - "SearchWiki"; a way of customizing your own Google Web Search results. You can rank, remove and add notes to any result page and see those tailored results anytime you do that search while you're logged in to your Google Account.
SearchWiki gives 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. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users. Google store your changes in your Google Account. If you are wondering if you are signed in, you can always check by noting if your username appears in the upper right-hand side of the page. SearchWiki lets you edit the position of the results you’re getting, and add comments to them. SearchWiki was in experimental stage for some time now. The changes you make only affect your own searches. But SearchWiki also is a great way to share your insights with other searchers. You can see how the community has collectively edited the search results by clicking on the "See all notes for this SearchWiki" link.
There’s more to SearchWiki: you can annotate your results (click on the balloon at the right of "similar pages"; and you can remove search results that you don’t like (by clicking on the X beside the arrow). As well, you can see what they community has done with particular search results (by clicking on "See all notes for this SearchWiki" found above the footer).
Specifically, you’ll be seeing three icons accompanying results, and further options below the listing:
Up vote: An up arrow, similar in functionality to what you may know from social sites like Reddit or Digg. Clicking it will turn the icon green and move this specific result up one position. Once upped, a down arrow appears as well, which will trigger the result to fly to the bottom of the listing. (Your changes are available only when you repeat the query and, in some cases, for similar queries). That means you can’t remove a web page or a domain from all search results.)
Remove: An X icon, which will make the result disappear in an animated puff. It won’t be completely gone for you, though; at the bottom of the page you’ll see the note "You have removed results from this page" with an option to hide them altogether, or restore them.
Comment: A Speech Bubble icon which lets you make a comment on the result. The comment will be public, Google disclaims. Once saved, you’ll still be able to edit or delete your comment later on. Others are now able to upvote your comment or flag it as innapropriate, like on the "All SearchWiki notes" page. (That page also serves as the next best thing to see the pure vote-based ranking.)
Add result: The plus icon is shown below the organic results, and it lets you add any URL at all to your result page.
This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic, giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives.
SearchWiki gives 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. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users. Google store your changes in your Google Account. If you are wondering if you are signed in, you can always check by noting if your username appears in the upper right-hand side of the page. SearchWiki lets you edit the position of the results you’re getting, and add comments to them. SearchWiki was in experimental stage for some time now. The changes you make only affect your own searches. But SearchWiki also is a great way to share your insights with other searchers. You can see how the community has collectively edited the search results by clicking on the "See all notes for this SearchWiki" link.There’s more to SearchWiki: you can annotate your results (click on the balloon at the right of "similar pages"; and you can remove search results that you don’t like (by clicking on the X beside the arrow). As well, you can see what they community has done with particular search results (by clicking on "See all notes for this SearchWiki" found above the footer).
Specifically, you’ll be seeing three icons accompanying results, and further options below the listing:Up vote: An up arrow, similar in functionality to what you may know from social sites like Reddit or Digg. Clicking it will turn the icon green and move this specific result up one position. Once upped, a down arrow appears as well, which will trigger the result to fly to the bottom of the listing. (Your changes are available only when you repeat the query and, in some cases, for similar queries). That means you can’t remove a web page or a domain from all search results.)
Remove: An X icon, which will make the result disappear in an animated puff. It won’t be completely gone for you, though; at the bottom of the page you’ll see the note "You have removed results from this page" with an option to hide them altogether, or restore them.
Comment: A Speech Bubble icon which lets you make a comment on the result. The comment will be public, Google disclaims. Once saved, you’ll still be able to edit or delete your comment later on. Others are now able to upvote your comment or flag it as innapropriate, like on the "All SearchWiki notes" page. (That page also serves as the next best thing to see the pure vote-based ranking.)
Add result: The plus icon is shown below the organic results, and it lets you add any URL at all to your result page.
This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic, giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives.
Official Google Blog: SearchWiki: make search your own
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