Are We Google’s Newest Spider?
This blog entry was posted on November 27, 2008.
Google has rolled out a new feature for their search engine results pages that allows users to customize the way the results are displayed. Google’s SearchWiki gives web surfers the ability to bring a result straight to the top of the page, remove it from the page entirely, and even add comments about a particular result.
It’s important to note that this is all on your search engine results page – it will not effect the way others see results with one big exception.
The comment you make about a result is public. And if you’re signed in with your Google account, your designated nickname will display as the author. So the potential for boneheaded actions, an increase of spam Google accounts, as well as a flux of entirely unhelpful joke comments are all there and very enticing for people with nothing else better to do…
What does it mean to us? Well, Google could be recording the actions of the millions of web surfers and noticing trends, using this info to tweak their search algorithms or just rolling this feature out as a test run for some kind of bigger plan. Intentional or not, with millions of users promoting sites or deleting them for certain search phrases, this kind of information could prove beneficial in Google’s new era of relevancy in displaying the results users truly want.
More importantly, what does this mean for you? Find some time to Google your company, go to the bottom of the page and click “See all notes for this SearchWiki” and see if anything negative/spammy is posted. There’s a handy little thumbs-down button to rate the comment as “bad.”
On this week of Thanksgiving, though, this Internet marketing blogger would be thankful for a way to just turn it off.
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