Google SearchWiki : Google Expands Web Results Voting Test
About a year ago today, we wrote about a Google experimental test for voting up web results. Well, it seems like Google is now pushing that test out to users. Several folks are now seeing it.
We have a WebmasterWorld thread with some people noticing it. We have blog posts from Justin Hileman, Garett Rogers, Alex Chitu and a German blog noticing this. Here is a video that demonstrates it all:
Alex notes that all users are not yet able to see this, but you can see "traces" of the Google SearchWiki by appending &swm=2 to the end of your search result string.
Going back in time, Google had a remove result feature, which they dropped a while back. This is a bit more sophisticated than simply removing results from the search results.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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rustybrick in Google Search Engine at October 29, 2008 8:09 AM
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We've started seeing searchwiki results in the Google SERPS, probably part of bucket testing though.
http://connect.icrossing.co.uk/google-searchwiki-tested_982
Posted by Adam Boulton at October 30, 2008 06:03