Google Experimenting Social Marketing Style Of Voting Similar To Digg
Recently TechCrunch has put up an interesting post about a Google experimenting, that allows that the site popularity are estimated through vote by others users.
This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you’ll continue to see those changes. If you later want to revert your changes, you can undo any modifications you’ve made. Note that this is an experimental feature and may be available for only a few weeks.
You can vote your favorites websites, or you can also hide some websites from the Google search results (see image below). At the moment the results of the program are not applied to the general search index but will only be stored per user.
How does to work?
First to use this feature, you must register for a Google account. It doesn’t cost anything to sign up for a Google account, however, I think not everybody will see this feature on their Google dashboard, even after you sign into their Google account. But for those who can use this feature, here is how you use it.
I like it! If you like a particular website you can promote it by clicking on the arrow-up icon beside the result.
 I don’t like it! If you don’t like particular result, you can hide when you search for the same keyword(s) in the future. The sites voted up will stay up. To make this press on “x” icon beside the result.
Google Labs says that “this is an experimental feature and may be available for only a few weeks,”. I love the result. Now we just have to wait to see how long this voting system becomes a normal feature inside the Google search engine. It’s a great way for give to users the chance to contribute on the results they want to see. I would love to hear your thoughts on this especially.
