This is definitely interesting, but unless they start using the up/down votes for general rankings and not just your own the term 'wiki' is a bit of a misnomer. Yeah, so I can read peoples' comments about the search results...but how often are you going to click the little bubble to see what others have written instead of just clicking on the link to see what the page is?
- Louis Simoneau
pretty big deal, also GREAT way for them to build sites quality scores for standard search
- sean percival
I can't help but think this data could or will be used to augment the algorithm and placement. maybe they'll just sell ads contextual to your notes though!
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
from IM
This is an important and probably influential move by Google, though in person I look for a bigger step by Google. ;-) Anyway, great post for an important new action. Yihong
- Yihong Ding
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I wish rankings could be affected by your GMail Contacts / GReader Friends. Would be FF-like.
- Dave Gilbert
Google SearchWiki will probably be fed back into the algorithm. Human feedback mechanism makes the algo smarter. No Digg needed.
- AJ Kohn
I have it too. Thought it was some unknown Firefox add-on at first.
- Gus
I haven't tried this yet...and I'm not sure I want to. It seems like this is only useful to those who repeatedly run the same search (unless I misunderstand).
- Scott of Two Countries
Was playing with this today, wasn't able to find how to view other comments though which was disappointing. Still I really like it and hopefully Google will build on this!
- Joe Dawson
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@Joe: View other comments by scrolling to the bottom and clicking "show all notes". @Scott: I agree, I don't see myself searching for the same thing over and over.
- Daniel J. Pritchett