SearchWiki in simple terms is a tool offered by Google to customize your search results. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users so all the changes made by you are stored in your Google Account. This tool allows you to promote a website to a higher rank on a SERP or remove a website completely or even add Comments or notes to a website. I can even add a website to the SERP if i feel it is relevant to my search.
In the above image we get to see a normal SERP.
Notice the change in above image where you get to see and use 3 new tools. This tool appears coz i have logged into my Google account and am doing search for the desired keyword.
This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic. Google being an innovator is giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives.
How does Google promote, remove & comments actually work?
To use the same, simply log in to your google account and try doing a search for the keyword phrase "ipl 2009". Now on the SERP you may click on the promote button next to any of the results and you will immediately see it magically go above the previous result. You can continue to use promote button to move a web page to the first position. But is this gonna affect SERPs for other users around the world too> The answer is NO.
Log out from your account and search again for the same keyword, you will see your selected pages dropping back to its original ranking position. Log in again and you will notice your chosen pages are back to your promoted order.
If you click remove on any of your promoted website, it will return to its previous place in your Google search results. But if you click remove randomly on any un-promoted website, it will be permanently removed from any results. Oops, i deleted a good link, now what to do? To get it back to the search result simple click on restore at the bottom.
If you like a site maybe you'd like to add some notes about what you found on that site and why you thought it was useful. You can do the same by adding your comments.
SearchWiki also is a great way to share your insights with other searchers. You can see how the community has collectively edited the search results by clicking on the "See all notes for this SearchWiki" link.
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