Google's unbranded SearchMash.com

http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061002-192616

Google's gained a new unbranded site called SearchMash where it plans to test user interface ideas without Google's brand somehow skewing the tests....

www.searchmash.com

 

Using images to aid in search thanks adsense users

 

You can reorder the SERPS by grabbing the order number. Wonder what they intend to do with that?

 

Add it to google search. this should be great for weeding out spam... after so many people rank it low it will be gone

 

But how are people going to rank anything if they don't know they can? I didn't know you could reorder the results until I saw tobycoke's post.

Plus it'll take a LOT of people to make such a system effective. PLUS, if everyone can do it what's to prevent site owners from pushing their own sites to the top? This can only lead to disaster. Or at the very least datacenter crash

 

I do like the way everything scrolls down though

 

because, unless you have 1,000's of IPs you can only vote a site down once.

 

I *really* like the ability to display the next set of 10 this way.

Instead of being able to drag a listing within the results, I'd like to have a 'drop spot' that I can drag to. Then I'd like to be able to save those.

/tom/

 

Gogo Ajax go

 

quite nifty tool indeed. you can drag the search results back into the search bar