Google Introduced Social Voting For Search Results, for registered users Options

[A.N.Onym]

I've just signed in to Google and noticed that there are two buttons near the results, one to promote or remove the result from the page.

Anyone seeing it or did I miss the announcement elsewhere?

Opinions?

Mine is that it'll at least see what sites you have in Google Webmaster tools, Adwords and not apply your rating to them, while potentially identifying all your others sites you own.

It is so open to abuse I don't know where to start. One of the things G might do is to revoke the right to affect the results, if manipulative clicking is noticed (as in, voting positive on junk sites and negative on good, trusted sites). Then again, how do they understand it's just personal bias and bad experience, not manipulation? Just not count it? *shrug*

Bring it on

This post has been edited by A.N.Onym: Nov 20 2008, 11:22 PM

[EGOL]

I am seeing it in the USA. Very interesting. Do you see a "comment" bubble below the title?

I think that this will launch new wars on new fronts.

ADDED: As for abuse... I am only seeing this when logged into google services in Firefox. So if it only displays while you are logged into google they know who is doing the votes. I am sure that they can apply some trust metrics to different users.

[SEOigloo]

I can't see it here on the west coast, Yura.

I'm logged into a Google account in FF.

The buttons you are seeing are next to the individual results right? Gosh, I want to see. Can anyone get a screenshot? I'm so curious!

[Joshua Sciarrino]

Here you go Miriam

http://www.huomah.com/News/Latest/Google-Search-Wiki.html

[SEOigloo]

Thank you, Joshua! Whoa...it's so weird to see this.

Crumb, I still can't see it in my results. Are you folks logged into a particular type of Google account? I wonder why it isn't showing up here. I've done all kinds of searches...local, generic, brand name, etc.

[Joshua Sciarrino]

I can't see it yet either....i don't know why... probably having glitches.

[AbleReach]

Wow. It wasn't there a couple hours ago, last time I logged in and out of Google. Neat.

Will your vote effect my serps, or am I only customizing my own serps?

If I was Miz Google and trying to pull this off with maximum spammer safeguards and insight, I'd make sure the whole Google webmaster tools and banning/re-inclusion process was very well established and respected, first. And so they did.

AND !!

This will be fun to watch. Can't you just hear the SEOs hand-wringing and salivating? I predict an outburst of "time wasting" in various social media, as this thang gets played with and speculated about.

p.s. I'm signed into Google and, so far, I'm seeing it on all searches. I have the various Google tools (gmail, G analytics, etc,) on this account.

[Joshua Sciarrino]

Will your vote effect my serps, or am I only customizing my own serps?

It will only effect your serps, personally, only if your logged in. Link

But...Google did kind of lean towards the idea of 'meta data'. Like if a lot of people place one page higher than the rest, but that will be down the line (maybe 6 months to one year?).

Google's algo will stay the same, it's basically a testing period to see how things look.

This post has been edited by Joshua Sciarrino: Nov 21 2008, 12:52 AM

[cre8pc]

See also:

This thread

(I was late to the party )

[A.N.Onym]

I guess I should've put up an image or something At least ppl can get both a description and an image from these two threads