Google SearchWiki

Posted Thursday, November 20th, 2008 by Richard Caddick

This is a really interesting new development by Google. A tool that allows the community to add their own views to search results:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7740815.stm

Or alternately:

http://www.google.com/experimental/a840e102.html

You can imagine the benefit immediately.

Now either Bonny has known about this for a while, or she’s super smart. I guess the latter.

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Richard Caddick
Richard is a managing director at cxpartners. He works with brands to develop engaging user experiences for different devices, and loves creative problem solving. Richard does a lot of baking, and loves to make bread. Email Richard, or call +44 (0)117 946 3930

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2 Responses to “Google SearchWiki”

  1. Daniel Szuc

    “Participatory thinking” is huge :)

  2. Bonny

    Its going to be really interesting to see how this pans out… will it just be ‘power users’ using this feature, and if so, will the results benefit the average user?

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