September 24, 2009

Last year, Google launched a feature called SearchWiki that allows users to customize search results. If you are logged in, you can remove search results, promote them at the top of the search results page and enter comments. While the feature is useful to personalize the results for frequent queries, the “wiki” component was only an afterthought.

Check the SearchWiki page for “google” and you’ll realize that the 27511 notes recorded by Google aren’t very useful. Comments aren’t helpful,…