Well after reading some recent reports about a new twist to Google’s search results, I have discovered that Google indeed has launched something Google is calling the searchwiki. If you have a Google account, you will need to be logged in to see this new tool. It appears that Google now allows each user to customize their own search results.

Once logged into your Google account you will see an up arrow and an X. If you click on the up arrow you will be increasing the search results for a particular website within “your” (once logged in) search results. If you click on the X you will remove that listing from “your” Google Search Results.

This adds a whole new spin to your Google Search Results, you can customize your results to be what you want them to be. Now this appears handy from the outside, but how many people consistently make then same search query time and again, to the point where they would want to customize the results? I am not sure, but what this will certainly accomplish is people who see really bad websites that do not belong in the result will certainly get nailed out of the results.

I personally nailed a few spam website that did not belong, but after I did this I wondered, where did they go? to Google Jail? Well to late because I have no idea how to get a site back once you click the X, and I guess I need to read about how to get websites back that you mistakenly removed from your search query results? I bet Google is going to get A TON of emails asking this same thing

In addition to this down in the bottom of the search results you will find a few links, one is ‘add a website’, which could be a way to submit a website, or possibly just another opportunity to customize your results. You will find a ‘see my search wiki notes’, which is a way for your to make notes or comments about websites in the search results. And a link for see all notes, which if you click this you are going to see some crazy posts about every website, and this appears to be a function Google is going to remove from this new tool as quickly as they added it, as this will rapidly become the place for spammers to really spam. I can see the Viagra posts already

It is late, and I have been playing, I just wanted to make everyone aware of this new twist Google added to search.

I think Google is using this mostly as a way to monitor their results and will probably track all the results to manually adjust their algorithm in the coming months.

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