Friday
21Nov2008
SEO disrupted? Google's SearchWiki set in motion
Friday, November 21, 2008 at 8:14AM
Google launched its SearchWiki tools feature which allows searchers who are logged in a Google account to move up or "promote" results they find interesting and publically comment on the listing.
Google's SearchWiki allows you to re-rank and edit your search results through personalization. This will no doubt impact SEOs who are looking at purely ranking high based on Google's algorhithm. The focus for strategic and smart SEOs should and always have been focusing on quality.
The SearchWiki tools, as the company calls them, allow anyone logged into a Google account to move up results they find interesting, delete ones that aren't useful and add personal notes through markers that appear next to each entry ...
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Reader Comments (2)
nice post! thanks for sharing, but is this beneficial for seo point..
Manoj,
The SEO value here is pretty clear, relevance and quality are now subject to the end user and therefore it's critical that SEO be a part of the process so that it's more natural as opposed to the "be all end all" making a site and content feel contrived for the sake of better rankings. Hope that makes sense.