Google has begun rolling out 3 new additions to its search engine on November 20th. The search engine giant added a Promote, Remove and Comment buttons beside each search to help users define their results better.
The Promote feature will allow you to move results up to the top of the list of your results, for future searches. This little addition to the search engine will help users by adding their favourite web sites to the top of each individual search result, that brings back that page. So for instance, if a user wished to promote www.neowin.net to the top of the page, and query a search for a keyword on the front page, it would place Neowin.net on the top of your search results. This is a benefit for people who promote their favourite sites like Neowin to return the first result.
Beside the Promote button, comes the Remove button. This button will delete that result from your future searches, to prevent it from coming back up again. This could be helpful in blocking those web sites that provide no helpful information to you. This is a great way to stop going back to the same bad result time and time again.
Finally, the Comment button, where users can leave a comment about any result, making it useful for coming back to later. Users can add helpful comments for other users, or for themselves when visiting the site next time.
Google has become one step closer to being your next bookmark organizer. Now you can view, save and edit your favourite sites all within Google. The bad thing about these features is, the fact most people don't search the same thing all the time, making it hard to take advantage of some of these features.
yea and that actually is a pretty efficient way for both sides, i think. =)
Google is providing you it's search service for free. The promote and remove feature is for the local user only, and doesn't affect other peoples searches. Shut up and stop whinging about nothing.
heh well said
Are you sure?.
Can you say Google will not collect those data for to improve their own ranking?.
Ah right so privacy is only useful for hiding your tracks while searching for Porn? I guess that's why the US Constitution has numerous privacy clauses in it... Those guys were far too worried about the government finding their porn...
Grow up... Privacy is important.
Use google to find a local bank branch or retail store they can then know where you shop and what services you use. Search for "dealing with depression" or other medical terms they could create a medical history. Well you get the idea.
Grow up... Privacy is important.
You're right, it is; but only if you search for things you don't want others to know. So long as Google doesn't have access to any of my accounts (except for the one with them, of course), I don't see the need for excessive privacy with them.
Grow up... Privacy is important.
I guess you read the EULA before using Google, right? If you don't agree with their policies, don't use it..
Grow up... Privacy is important.
I guess you read the EULA before using Google, right? If you don't agree with their policies, don't use it..
Privacy on the Internet is over. So who cares
I thought they did that when they released Google Bookmarks with the Google Toolbar. Oddly, the new SearchWiki and Google Bookmarks aren't tied together as much as I would have expected it to be.
But this means I'll finally be able to remove Experts-Exchange from my search results.
I would rather vote the EE results UP for myself
That's a great piece of info - thanks!
Abused how? The Promote and Remove functions only promote or remove results localy, on your computer. It does not affect how Google ranks web pages. Neither does the comment function, although I image that a ton of negitev comment could possibly prompt Google to take some sort of action on that page's status vis-a-via it's search resluts.
The only abuse I could see happening here are the self-inflicted variety, as well as the usual kind you get in any online commenting system.
No, it won't be digg. don't worry
also, what do you guys think about google mail's new interface... like the themes and all that
also, what do you guys think about google mail's new interface... like the themes and all that
The update might take awhile to reach all regions, depending on your country. Canada got the update two days later (or I did anyways) than Americans did.
It is linked to your Google Account................
You login to iGoogle, search, and it will save your preferences.
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