When Wikia search engine was launched, the hype it generated mainly because of it’s ability to consider user feedbacks also for the search results. That is, the user can promote/demote, add comments to any search results to improve it’s placement in the SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Prior to this, all of the search engines were doing some kind of ranking algorithms (like Google’s Page Ranking algorithm) to list the search pages, but none of them were considering one most important metric – User feedback. Wikipedia got this point exactly and came up with Wikia.
Search engine giant Google must have working on something to replicate features of Wikia to Google site also. Now it has done the exactly same with Google searchWiki. Now users can give their feedback about the Google’s search results.
Promote/Demote Google Search Results
Add comments to the Google search results
Now some questions about Google searchWiki?
- Since there is no comment moderation, how Google is going to tackle Spammers?
- Is it possible to promote a site using bots (some kind of Javascripts!?) or Google records only one feedback per IP addrees?
- Since there is no way to rate comments other’s made, how can I delete a wrong/misleading comment about any site (possibly mine!)?
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