search engine results

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? :)

I've been using Google's "Edit Search Results" since I blogged about it yesterday, and I have a couple further observations.

Read about Google's social search experiment after the jump.

I Googled something a minute ago and noticed that my SERP looked a little different:

In particular, check out those three grey icons. They appear next to every result on the page, but there isn't any noticeable indication why they're there. So I clicked one :)

The link turned green, which was fun. But the most exciting thing was that it moved to the top of the page—with a nice, slick animation. Apparently Google is letting me customize the results of my search.

Check out Google's editable search result experiment after the jump.