Disagree with Google’s search results? or you want a page appear on the first result page whenever you search for the same query, You’ll be able to do something about it with a change the company released on Thursday.
Google’s SearchWiki is a feature that lets people elevate, delete, add, and annotate search results. Google remembers the changes a person made to search results, so repeat searches will show the same customizations and notes.
This is a search feature that gets a user more control over their search results,” said Cedric Dupont, Google’s SearchWiki product manager.
There’s also a collaborative element: people can see how many customazation done by others, by clicking a “See all notes for this SearchWiki” link at the bottom of each search results page. That shows notes and how people have promoted or deleted pages in aggregate.
Google will use people’s voting behavior as an input to the regular search algorithm that determines the order of search results. Google already employs human judgment in its algorithm by virtue of its PageRank technique, which judges a Web site’s merit in part on how many other Web sites link to it, but people promoting or deleting specific Web addresses could be another signal.
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