Comments on: Google SearchWiki Is Back. Here’s How To Kill It For Good.

By: Google SearchWiki – User Reactions and Search Marketing Implications | Sitewire Evolutionary Marketing Blog

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:33:26 +0000

[...] Spammers are already spamming the “comments” of search results – as seen here. Comments too can be flagged as inappropriate, so it is up to your loyal social following to [...]

By: islamisohbet

islamisohbet — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:41:20 +0000

This would really be a great feature if people could be trusted to rank things honestly. Unfortunately, Google has to spend 99% of their resources to combat spammers.

By: This Life of Brian » Blog Archive » Why the Alarm About Google’s SearchWiki?

Mon, 08 Dec 2008 02:12:58 +0000

[...] live for all users with a Google Account, and there’s been a lot of complaining since. Mike at Tech Crunch complained that it was a new outlet for porn spam and ripe for abuse. Will at Tech Savvy Educator [...]

By: Google News 17 Nov 2008 - 24 Nov 2008 | WeGoSe Media

Google News 17 Nov 2008 - 24 Nov 2008 | WeGoSe Media — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:34:53 +0000

[...] Google SearchWiki Is Back. Here’s How To Kill It For Good. Cheers were heard across the Internet earlier today when Google’s new SearchWiki search interface inexplicably vanished. Perhaps, just maybe, it was gone for good. Or at least when it returned it would have an opt out feature. … [...]

By: blogonawire | Google SearchWiki - User Reactions and Search Marketing Implications

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:09:18 +0000

[...] SearchWiki. Spammers are already spamming the “comments” of search results – as seen here. Comments too can be flagged as inappropriate, so it is up to your loyal social following to [...]

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:39:47 +0000

@Steve Bomber: Google re-invented the browser architecture? Yeah, in their marketing materials they surely did! If you use Chrome daily (like I do), you’ll know it’s all just marketing as it’s neither more stable, nor more secure than IE7; not even than IE8.

By: Powering search with UGC: Google should look at Yandex | Window on the Media

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:42:07 +0000

[...] of user input I was talking about last week. The new SearchWikis are an invitation to spammers, as Michael Arrington in the US and Didier Durand in France have pointed [...]

By: boardgirl

boardgirl — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:18:29 +0000

This new feature from google called searchwiki is sure causing a stir among techies and regular surfers. Some people hate it some people love it. It is basicly a digg style vote/comment system for google search results. Check out what it looks like (if its not working in your region yet) at http://thesearchwiki.com to see some screen shots and video about how it works.

By: Primeras reacciones sobre Google SearchWiki - Un Blog Más

Primeras reacciones sobre Google SearchWiki - Un Blog Más — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:16:57 +0000

[...] así como la imposibilidad de deshacer los cambios realizados previamente. Por otro lado, en Techcrunch afirman la facilidad con la que se puede generar spam gracias a SearchWiki y “ensuciar” los [...]

By: Micky D

Micky D — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:00:31 +0000

Agreed, dumbest thing i have seen from Google in a while.

Another reason to avoid Google accounts and logging in to them, the members of my non-tech savvy forum are logging out of their Google accounts and abandoning them in droves and switching to Yahoo/Hotmail addys.

By: » Spam, confusion, and annoyance - welcome to SearchWiki | Pagespank.com - web 0.0

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:28:37 +0000

[...] TechCrunch’s porn spam, I have a few favourite comments, including the anonymous searcher who has commented on most Google [...]

By: Tryps

Tryps — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:32:41 +0000

So.. how am I supposed to use this feature?
1) Google something
2) Click on a link
3) Like or hate what I see
4) Click back to the search results
5) Make a comment

Yay, of course google! I’d love to do that for you!

By: Engago Team

Engago Team — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:56:00 +0000

Maybe in the near future we can tell the end of the once mighty Google:
- Started the hated Wiki Search
- Killed themselves by killing Adsense thanks to their Wiki Search
- Microsoft and Amazon controlled the cloud market and Google never could make people pay for their Google Apps.
- Tried to sell mobile phones into retail stores – which killed Google completely as Samsung controlled the pricing of the required processors and chips.

Now we all miss Google Earth

By: Get Rid of Google's Search Wiki for Good | Next Modo

Get Rid of Google's Search Wiki for Good | Next Modo — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:35:35 +0000

[...] Google SearchWiki is back again. I’m tired of talking about this crappy tool. Arrington, over at TechCrunch has a post on how to get rid of SearchWiki for good. [...]

By: Google SearchWiki | Technico Blog

Google SearchWiki | Technico Blog — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:43:49 +0000

[...] ogni medaglia ha il suo rovescio, infatti, come ha riferito TechCrunch negli ultimi giorni, spesso i commenti vengono utilizzati per spammare siti più o meno dignitosi, e di solito [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:31:12 +0000

Doesn’t surprise me – Google seems to have forgotten about their users. They rolled out the new iGoogle beta to “a percentage of users” with NO option to back out, and pissed off a lot of users there. They “streamlined” their real-estate search, basically by removing all filtering capabilities, and gave no response to users who complained.

This is just more of the same.

By: exapted

exapted — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:39:45 +0000

My Google account is registered as a US account, and I use US English as my interface language.

But I am not located in the US. So I’m assuming that’s why SearchWiki doesn’t show up for me.

By: Why googles did search machine place in? | Truckers' Kit

Why googles did search machine place in? | Truckers' Kit — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:02:19 +0000

[...] the new voting and commenting feature for search results Google introduced last week, or not, it was undeniably a bold move for the company to turn on the feature for everyone with a Google [...]

By: Steve Bomber

Steve Bomber — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:40:15 +0000

Yeah, except they pretty much re-invented the entire web browser architecture.

By: Steve Bomber

Steve Bomber — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:37:20 +0000

Then don’t use it.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:25:56 +0000

Okay… mark that second part as wrong. If I choose to view other people’s notes, it changes the order of search results as well for me. So, that bit I said is wrong.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:23:16 +0000

Actually, the original blog post on the Google Blog makes it clear that you only see other people’s comments if you want to.

Also, the changes in rankings that you make are personal, and don’t have any effect on the actual results for anyone else.

By: Steve Bomber

Steve Bomber — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:13:50 +0000

Amen.

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:25:42 +0000

You can’t fight it.. pr0n was what the Internet was invented for. Free access to pr0n is why most folks signed up with their first Isp.

By: JpMaxMan

JpMaxMan — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:07:27 +0000

I actually kind of like this feature – it has a lot of potential to eliminate the search spam sites. I’m sure they will get the comment spam under control and I don’t think it destroys the clean interface.

To each his own, but I see a lot of potential here.