Google has created a new tool that allows users to rank, reorder, add and remove their search results. The new option will be visible on Google's search results page with icons that carry out ranking and reordering commands. When users search again, the results will be the same as the search they previously edited. This option, however, does not rank everyone's search results on accumulated user edits. It is only recorded for the individual user. The article then states that this tool probably won't be added to Google searching anytime soon, or maybe ever. I think that this is a very interesting idea. When I am researching for a project, sometimes its hard to remember the sites I have previously visited. I could easily bookmark them, but it's annoying when you have 15 bookmarked pages and have to sort through them. This tool would eliminate the need for bookmarking an unnecessary amount of website pages. However, I think that a ranking based on accumulated results from users would be really helpful as well. Unfortunately, Google will probably never add a total user ranking because they have algorithm-based searching.
The author of this article is Scott Gilbertson, posted on Wired.com November 29th, 2007.
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/11/google-experime.html
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