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Google SearchWiki

Yesterday Google launched SearchWiki, which allows you to reorder your Google search results, delete sites from the hit list, add sites to the results, and annotate your results page.  For each hit, you’ll see an up-arrow (to reorder), an “X” (to delete), and a speech balloon (for comments).

SearchWiki is available to you only if you’ve logged into Google with your Gmail account.  The changes you make to the results page will also only apply to your account.  However, if you want to see how others have customized the results, click on “See all notes for this SearchWiki” at the bottom of the results page.

I’m not going to edit a results page.  I’m either going to find what I want in the top 10 or 20 hits, or I’m not.  If I find a site that I like, and that I think I’ll use again, I’ll bookmark it.  It’s bad enough that Google has my Database of Intentions, but I’m not going to teach it what I like as well.  This is simply another way for Google to benefit from my free labor.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on November 21, 2008 (boomark / email).