SearchWiki - Google's customized social search is back
Google's messing with search engine results again, but this time it looks like they're trying to take on Wikipedia, not Digg. At least they're calling their editable search engine result experiment SearchWiki this time around. It still looks a lot like it did last time I reported on it (here and here). Check out a bunch of screenshots from this iteration here:
Things are a bit smoother this time. Moving results is a nice, polished animation. Overall, SearchWiki pretty rad. I can't wait for more community features to show up. Mebbe they'll even use these Google public profiles we all have but don't know about?
If you wanna give it a shot but don't see the fun little grey buttons next to your search results, try adding &swm=2 to the end of a Google search URL. (swm=2 was the same parameter they used in the last iteration. YMMV). If that doesn't work, try 0 or 1 or 2. Can't hurt, right? :)
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It gives me the "All SearchWiki Notes" bar, but doesn't show any of the SearchWiki notes.
Hey Justin, just because it has "Wiki" in the name SearchWiki, don't take that to mean that we're trying to take on Wikipedia. Wikipedia is great and I like it a lot, but SearchWiki is about reordering search results for yourself and has nothing to do with Wikipedia.
I agree. It seems like it is taking on Wikia search more than Wikipedia. (Knol is their attempt to take on Wikipedia).
Also, I see this as a stepping stone in Google's social strategy. Someday, sites promoted by your friends will raise in your own searches.
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