User involvements to organizing the web: re-rank Google search results
Category: How Products benefit users No Comments »You have been the one who create contents for the web.
You have been the one who teaches the web semantic meanings by tagging and linking information.
How much can You involve in organizing the web? The next step is You can change the order of Google search results.
Google Search started off one decade ago in 1998 with their search algorithm, and it’s been the core of their success till now. As the time grows, Google grew to be #1 search engine but has been facing a lot of challenges. Not only including Yahoo! and Live and Ask, the list of competitors is crowded with Wikia search, Cuil, Visual Search and many more. From this list, Mahalo and Wikia involve users in where they can provide feedbacks to the search results.
So what’s next from Google? An experiment to allow Google user to re-rank the search results. You can see the arrows in the screenshot below:

This is, again, only their experiment. But ain’t it interesting to follow?
My wonder is: does this feature collaborative or simply personal? How will Google absorb this feedback channel - algorithmically or mass-manually?
What do you think of this feature from Google?
Read more on their experiments on Search
Tags of this article: ask,cuil,google,live,mahalo,microsoft,web-2.0,wikia,yahoo!.

























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