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8 commentsSaturday, December 20, 2008

Would You Like SearchWiki More if You Could Hear it?

Google Adds Sound Effect to Experiments

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By marius (WPN reader) - Sun, 12/28/2008 - 12:26

Search should be kept to the

Search should be kept to the basic, we are searching for results not fancy features

By Joy-Mari (WPN reader) - Tue, 12/23/2008 - 10:16

Digg users

I'm sure the Digg users will love this feature.

By Kitchen Remodeling Estimates Salem OR (WPN reader) - Tue, 12/23/2008 - 04:26

Does it matter?

I mean who is actually going to use SearchWiki? Does anyone other than SEOs know it even exists?

Will your mom use it? Dad? Wife? Husband? Kids?

Im a search expert and I can tell you 'No.' to all of them for our circle.

People will either go to Google.com (or their country flavor) enter a query (and refine?) then get to clicking on results.

How many more studies do we need to read about people being lazy and just wanting to get to where they are going with the least amount of work and resistance? Are you really going to scroll to the bottom of every search you do, click the SearchWiki link and then click more links to look at comments and then decide what site to visit??

No.

By Sam Nichols (WPN reader) - Mon, 12/22/2008 - 08:59

I really get annoyed when

I really get annoyed when there is unwanted sound at the background of a website, there i no need for google to add a sound feature, it wont make the experience of deleting the unwanted search more pleasant, but only more annoying!

By Host-Best (WPN reader) - Sun, 12/21/2008 - 08:22

I guess it's not the worst thing...

I guess it's not the worst thing to do if it only makes a sound on removal of a result. However I cant see why it matters. As long as it's not like a website that starts playing some sound when I first show up. I do keep my sound on when navigating and when I land on a page that does this I leave right away. I think if you are looking for high bounce rates then a noisy site is the way to go. I am there to look, not listen.

By Affordable SEO Services (WPN reader) - Sat, 12/20/2008 - 18:17

Ya, I don't think a sound is

Ya, I don't think a sound is really the feature that it needs. Most of the time I navigate the web with my sound turned off so as to avoid annoying music on some websites, so I would never even have noticed this. And I can see how it could just be an annoyance to some users.

By JR (WPN reader) - Sat, 12/20/2008 - 23:36

annoying

Not a fan of sound when I'm surfing either, I think it's just annoying. What's the point, unless they want people to get overzealous deleting search results, just to hear the sound effect?