Hi gang... some really interesting stuff out today - Google Search Wiki (there's a video there as well as pics and commentary) Question is... does this change everything? And how to stop the spammers mucking with the open annotations? Interesting stuff Quotable; Google’s Marissa Mayer was quoted as saying that it won’t affect natural organic search listings with a cryptic twist; “At this time we aren’t using SearchWiki to influence ranking but it is easy to see how that could happen in the future†And product manager Cedric Dupont echoed that by saying; "We don't close any doors. We constantly evaluate signals - Search is adapting to the Internet as it becomes a more participatory medium. Now you have people telling us specific things about how they'd like to see their search results." This could be specifically troubling for the web spammers as Dupont went on to say; "You could imagine if we do see a particular site (about which) people have a unanimous opinion, that might trigger external things. Like maybe we should check out our spam control,â€
I was using Swicki wiki search on my sites for a while. I think this is interesting but there will probably be "Digg like circles" promoting their sites.