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Google announced that SearchWiki was created to allow users to personalise their own individual search results and experience, but really, how long are they going to sit on the SearchWiki data without acting upon it? As "SEO" above has said, this will leave search results open to manipulation by using fraudulent accounts to remove or re-rank businesses as they see fit. I hope it doesn't come to that...

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Nick

I don't think it will make any difference to the core results in the short term, but may affect the ranking of certain sites that once they have built up enough data.

Lol! It won't help. I don't see anybody but webmasters and really Google savvy users getting an account. Google will just open another market for blackhatters.

There is an effective weapon Google could use and they don't use it, SHUTTING THEIR TRAP!

They are going to get spammed with bogus accounts, its just an easier way than building links...

As has already been said, the effect will be determind by how many people adopt it or not. I watch my wife and older kids when they are searching to see how those not working in the industry do things as I have forgotten.

Not one of them even knows Google has a personalised search option and if they did I highly doubt they could be bothered. When they hit Google to search they simply type the term in, press enter and away they go.

To be honest if it wasn't for Analytics and Webmaster Tools I wouldn't even have a Google account myself and I only log in when required. I really don't like the idea of Google keeping track of what I do to simply 'try' and improve the results I'm shown.

More to the point though, it is a bad idea, it will be heavily abused and Google will just have to find something else to counter that.

What strikes me though is that by Google saying, "Hey, we need some of your personal data to make it better (not necessarily get it right) for you", they are by omission telling us after 10 years they still don't know how to make it work the way it's mean't to.

The perfect search engine should not need user data to know exactly what you mean and then return the correct results. I think personalized search may be nothing more than a shortcut to that ideal.

I am very pleased with this. My mom has been trying to get to the top of

Los Angeles Tailor
Beverly Hills Tailor
Los Angeles Seamstress
Beverly Hills Seamstress

for a LONG time now, but no luck. However, the people who she works with LOVE her and always pass her on to others.

This is essentially word of mouth for google!

Is there any background stuff out there to read? Wonder what this means to my personal situation?
Always wondered how i could get a higher ranking but am afraid that whole strategy is down the drain now with these new developments...do i alter my strategy for http:www.orangedwarf.com ?

the move towards personalized search will in my opinion only make SEO even more important. it is doubtful that users of google will personalize all of their first 10 results for a particular keyword. only 1 to 3 results will be personalized meaning that now it will become even more important not only to place in the top 10, but in the top 8!

furthermore, having personalized search might encourage people to go beyond just searching the top 10 or 20 results and searchers might get accustomed to searching even deeper.

ads on google mail. All of it is simply comerce and has nothing to do with a better expirience for the users. And Black Hatters will find another way to spam SE results.

Before judging, let this feature spins for a while. Only time will tell if users like us will be using this feature for our seaching experience. 9

The good aspect is cool as you can always find whatver you saved all the time when u login. But this is for many that has time to spend on google. I mean when i search for something on google, i dont care about ranking the search term. All i do is just get the infomation i need and close the page and thats about that...so that feature is really for those who has time. I mean how many people really care about ranking their search term?

Are the search results specific to the logged in user? Or can someone create 100 different google accounts and buff up their own results??? I can see a lot of unscrupulous people doing that for their sites that have little content, but gain them money off of their google ads all over the page.

You know the types of sites I am refering to, your looking up information on say beagles, theirs one sentence about a beagle, but google ads on the top, the bottom and both sides of the page, and the sentence is so hidden you probably missed it to start with. Those people will spam their sites all over the place for the ad revenue on people trying to get off their sites of little or no value. Then again, google probably really wouldnt care about those craptastic sites getting to the top, they get the pay per click revenue from the AD placers

I disagree. How many googlers use Personalized Search? It's just another marketing article. "Use our custom search, because people like it." I guess Google spent a lot of money on custom search. Now they need money back.