Will Search Wiki effect search engine traffic?

See, after login Google maintain another data base for search wiki result. but i do't think so any effect for regular seo result.

 

Yes Google will be using the data generated from this in it's algorithm.

 

From the google blog:

~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.~

Cant this be the future of the way web users search for information? People would like to get results from the searchwiki community, hoping that a result searchwikied (bookmarked) by a large number of human users would be of a better value than a natural SERP result.

 

It will have no effect on normal SERP or Traffic IMO.

 

No, What I can see is the people have to login in Google Account first to customize, remember their searches.
IMO, it will have no impact on regular search.

 

If they collected data and tried to use it to modify their true default serps, I'd lose a lot of respect for Google. It wouldn't be a smart move with how easy it would be to game the system.

You would see large corporations setting up all their computer stations with individual log ins and modified searches putting their company at the top. You would also see thousands of services in poor countries charging to set up Google accounts by the thousands with modified searches lifting your domain in serps. I'm sure it will be tested though to make sure lol.

 

How do you know this to be true?

I suspect you're making a cynical assumption.

 

this feature of Google is good for users to personalize their search. The changes you make only affect your own searches & will not create any effect on Google ranking algorithm (but who knows....Google might use this in ranking algorithm in near future). But don't you think that this feature is an open opportunity to spammers. Because other people can also see the modifications which you are doing for a particular search.

We are inviting all of you to participate in this discussion on our blog also. Your inputs are very important for us.

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Of course they will use that data at some point to improve there search results.
I saw this coming 5 years ago.
Algos have limits. While the customer/searcher power is still not widely used.
It's like with the CPUs. The clock speed get so high that it was hard to keep them increasing it, the easier solution was to make multi core CPUs.

So at some point they will give the user "voting" a factor in their algo for sure.

 

I absolutely second that. Next wave of search technology is a blend of algos and vote from users. Digg + google algos.

 

Well if you do a search for seo then click "See All notes for this SearchWiki" at the bottom of the page you will see that some are already using the system to vote pages up or down.

Short term i doubt it will have any effect on natural serps, but if a page is voted down a lot it may have long term effects ?

It will end up becoming full of comment spam and viagra adverts tho.

 

I still don't see it, even if I go to google international... damn...
But it looks that this could get to be one of the factors, but probably not too important. The argument, that it can be abused for CEO means that no other things in the algo can be, but we all know that this is not so.
So they gust have to give only a small weight to it and I believe they can use it...
What it means for websites I believe that we will see a raise in returning visitors, because people will search but then click the same sites more and more and won't feel like finding new sites. That means, that if you have a great site, people will come back and if not, the will check you out, but later they will "bookmark" some other site and will be less likely to come to yours again..

 

I already bumped some sites and wrote some notes. Don't know if this will someday affect, even if lightly, the results for everyone, but it doesn't take much time either.

 

Same here, I have also started to bump and do notes. If this changes the serps then this is a easy way to influence the rankings. But we will see, i'm going to check after the weekend if there has been affects. The only way is to test

 

This is Google.
You don't really think they'll open it to manipulations and spam so directly...
There are many things they can do to filter most of the spam and manipulation.
And we are again where we started - they are trying to stop us from manipulating the results, while we are trying to match our sites to their algo.

 

What if they (G) will eventually adjust SERPS based on the user rating of web sites? Maybe not this year, but eventually....

 

If it will have any effect someday it will be minimal. Maybe something on the same level as serp's ctr or abandon rates from page you visit (when people go back to the serp). Only some Google employees have access to this kind of info, the rest is just speculation.

 

It will, IMO

Because if I saw a negative review below the link, I will not likely to click it.

 

imo, wikisearch is a big and big balloon. G is the king for search engines. i'm sure it will continue to become king

 

it is good that you can delete bad websites from your search, but i think that google will use stats from the results for indexing purposes