Friday 23 January 2009

Google searchwiki

The Google search wiki is interesting, if you’re logged in to a Google account, it lets you rerank the results of your search and write comments against each link. The reranking is only logged to your personal account, but anyone logged into Google can see your comments.

E.g. if you search for ‘tickets’ then click ‘see all search wiki comments’ at the bottom of page, you can see what other people have been writing about ticketing sites.


I don't think Google would take notice of people’s personal re-rankings or comments within their algorithms right now but it is a cool feature and will be interesting to see how it grows. Could it learn your personal result preferences and start ranking results to be more relevant to the individual?