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If they do allow us to influence live search ranking I think more weight will passed onto trusted Google account owners who have been registered for years and have a good Google footprint. Those who have just signed up will have little or no influence on the rankings in live search.

For years Google has been busting a gut for all of us, so isn’t it time we started to help them?

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The other side of it – what incentives does the search have to leave a comment on a url?

As far as one commenter on this thread that has a problem with Search Wiki Comments being saved against the url and not the search query – that would be almost impossible to do – there’s so much that needs commenting on as it is – to only show the comment against the same exact query that generated the result that was commented on – would mean hardly anyone would ever see anyone’s comments.

Give it 6 months to a year – collect enough data that individuals can start creating research around the commentary, plus new services and ranking extraction tools will be need to extract comments and present them in a report for clients – and I see this as being, really, a good thing – what Google has done here with Search Wiki.

Maybe the only thing I’m afraid of, is what everyone else is afraid of – that people will say nasty things about each other and there’d be no way to get rid of the comments – that can create all kinds of problems. So … is Search Wiki fully worked out? No – more work is needed on this enhancement to search to make it possible for users to have privacy, when they want it – and that hasn’t been done, as far as I can see.

But having said that – Google Search Wiki really does merge Search and SEO, and as a result, could feed the next revolution – which is that Social Media, it’s ROI, now becomes more associated with Search than before – we can now begin to index Social Media ROI with Google’s Search Wiki – the Wiki will be the door in to prove Social Media works, and is scalable.

Just a thought on this pre-Thanksgiving day.

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But I don’t think any of it’s likely to become an issue, because I don’t think it’ll ever really take off.

The big problem is that there’s no real value in being able to Promote/bookmark a listing. The value of proper bookmarking is:
1) you’ve found a good page (searchwiki fail – all searchwiki tells you is the title & description; you don’t know if it’s good ’til you get there);
2) you quickly save that page (searchwiki fail – you have to press back first and find the listing); and
3) you can quickly retrieve it (searchwiki fail – you have to open searchwiki, remember the search query, perform the search, and click the promoted listing)

So who’s going to use it? Who’d would WANT to bookmark a page before they see it? And who’d want to use searchwiki to bookmark when there are so many better ways of doing that?

I reckon Google will realise that most people won’t use it for the above reasons, and those who do will simply be getting less value out of Google search. So it won’t last long.

What’s more, as a bookmarking system, it’s pretty lame because it only allows you to bookmark those pages that you find thru search. In my experience, most people (power user webmasters & SEOs aside) use one method for bookmarking. They’re not going to want to use one method for pages they find thru search and another for pages they find through some other method!

And finally, there’s the question of who’s likely to actually perform the same search repeatedly. People who are after different results each time, of course! And what use will they have for it?

I’m not discounting my other comment above, I just don’t think it’s gonna get to that.

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