Search Wiki ; Has anyone seen 'toggle switches/icons' in search results?

I too noticed this today for the first time and have done a little testing to try and find what's going on.

After logging onto Google, I can promote a website from lower down in the rankings to top position. Having promoted a site, I then also see a button to remove it. If I click on remove, the site returns to its original positioning. If I then sign out of Google, any sites that I have promoted return to their original positions.

From this I would conclude that the facility is in essence a personal bookmarking facility, enabling you to create your own customised search engine listings, and I doubt whether it will have any effect on the overall listings.

Try it - see if you agree.

Jon

 

The big question is, does this only effect each individual persons results like an email spam filter, or will they use the collected data to shape the results as a whole ?

 

I went through google groups and found explanation:
http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=115764
I hope google don't put weight on this for SERP's.
I see many 'black hat SEO's' having a field day on
this one clicking away at the competition in the
hope google puts them on their desired keyword/s.

ROOFIS

 

i saw it this morning i wonder how google gonna deal with spam coz of this

 

Hey, just noticed this morning that next to each site, there is a promote and remove button. What are these for? are they to organise search results just for yourself? or does clicking these buttons affect rankings globally?
I hope its the former, since u could just get all your friends to click "remove" for your competitors sites!!

can anyone shed any light on this?

 

Looks like it's per-user with no effect on serps by the link roofis posted.

 

Yes, Google has launched 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 only.

The changes you make only affect your own searches.
We have written a post on this topic on our blog to continue the discussion on this feature. Please participate in that also.

 

It's all part of the newly launched SearchWiki, allowing you to personalise your own search results. The buttons will not affect searches by other web users.

Taken from www.google.co.uk/support/bin/answer.py?answer=115764

"SearchWiki lets you customize your Google Web Search results by ranking, removing, and adding notes to them. You'll see your changes whenever you do the same searches while signed in to your Google Account, or until you decide to undo them. You can also see how other users have tailored any given search results page with their own notes and changes."

 

For a minute I though T had abandoned the algos and thought we could just vote our own sites to the top. Was just about to order a rapid fire mouse

 

Not sure what to think about it. I hadn't noticed it until i used search this morning.

So for now it's okay. The question is how long before they start using this data to tweak their algorithms?

 

does this do any effect on the real and current rankings or it just as they say that for your eyes only? Maybe it will have an effect on the ranking later specially if many accounts will be voting for the result to rank high. Can anyone disprove this?

 

Not sure everyone is seeing it...I can't seem to coax Google into showing me the buttons, tried two different accounts.

 

Google has said the SERP changes are account based only. Meaning votes will not affect the real SERPs. Think about it - they would be utterly stupid to have these votes count, as anyone could control what shows up in the search with enough spammers and money.

 

I only see those Move Up and Down arrows in Chrome and not in Firefox.

And once every member has prefixed his Priorities, then a new website has no change of moving up, isnt it ?

 

ouch DP Looks like the post got mutated,I wonder how long this wiki thing google is operating is going to last?

 

Hopefully not to long .... I hate it and want to log out of my Google account ....

 

I see the links in Opera. And just because it's not effecting ranks now doesn't mean in the future it won't. Google might just be collecting data now and seeing the abuse and how it might effect rankings if it were included in their algo. This is very interesting and imho...the biggest change Google has made to it's search engine in years.

 

how will this affect the price of 1k gmail accounts from bangalore?

 

It's just a part of Google Results Personalization, and won't affect the real ranking system which based on votes.