Varun told me about Google’s SearchWiki being introduced in India this morning. It is nice that I can play around with my search results move them up or close them, add comments to it so that I don’t waste time looking up those results again. I have been using delicious to mark the links that I like, so that I don’t have to search them again, but I guess I would start commenting on them from now on.

The first thing that came to my mind was, if people can use this to push their search results on top. I checked out google’s official blog entry on SearchWiki and it clearly states

The changes you make only affect your own searches.

So when you move a search result up, it is reflected only in your search results and not others.

But SearchWiki also is a great way to share your insights with other searchers. You can see how the community has collectively edited the search results by clicking on the “See all notes for this SearchWiki” link.

So in a way you can try and push your product: not on the top of the search results, but by the quality of the comments

You can read Google’s Official Post on it here.

Here is how to use it