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I’ve known of Google’s New SearchWiki for about 3 months now but I only heard rumors of it within the Search Marketing Community. Now it’s apart of each and every user’s experience, that is logged into Google.

The SearchWiki is a default function and you can’t ‘opt-out’. You can ‘vote’ up and down for each result and also add comments. Comments are made public, so others will know you made a comment about whatever you comment about. There is no feature to comment anonymously. This could bring up issues to privacy.

Google’s Search Wiki is a social element added to search, where logged-in users can comment and vote on the results. Problems with this are privacy and reputation management issues. Imagine all the negative feedback one webpage can get. It would be almost near impossible to manage that issue and extremely difficult. Also, knowing who commented on each and every comment can be tough, sometimes, I don’t want to be branded by one statement.

I made an 8 minute video on testing it out and showing you how to use the new functions.


Google SearchWiki Experiment, Tutorial, and Review from Refuge Design on Vimeo.

Also Danny Sullivan wrote a great article about the New Google SearchWiki. Enjoy reading it and trying out the new functions.

[Note] Now the Wiki went down due to issues they were having with it and are ‘fixing the problem’.

[2nd Note] Okay, Wow! That was weird. Google launches SearchWiki as default, then tanks it within 2 days and then the next day, they bring it back up again!!! 

Also, many people want to know how to get rid of it. You can’t in your Google setting but you can use Firefox with Greasemonkey script and poof it will go away. :)