Today when I turned on my computer and searched something in Google, I’ve noticed some strange signs near my search results. My first thought was that my PC has been hacked :) , but when I clicked the link, I got the idea that it’s another Google innovation. Let’s see what’s written at the Official Google Blog:

Today 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. 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. We 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.

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.

What does this really mean? I don’t think I input the same queries every day, if I don’t intent to promote my site for this key phrase. Usually my search terms are different and I can’t see the reason to delete or manage the search results: if I’m searching for some information, I get what I need (Thanks, Google) and don’t come back to the same page anymore.

I’ve checked what’s shown for linux terms. Almost nothing at the moment as people don’t yet know what do these little arrow and “X” signs do. But when I checked Searchwiki contents for a competitve keyword, I’ve found that 53 notes were recorded for “car insurance”.

My personal opinion at this time is that this instrument will be widely used by SEO webmasters. Though Google tells that Searchwiki doesn’t affect general search results, I think that this function will be implemented some time later. But… if it’s done, there will be SEO wars, when webmasters will try to pull don concurents’ sites from SERP…

Let’s see how it comes. At the moment, I’ve moved all my sites to the top and I’m happy :)

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