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Google search result comments experiment [and Digg-style voting]

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
16 years ago3,434 views

http://i.justinhileman.info/serp_icons-20080715-044101.png

Google is experimenting with letting people not only upvote results, but also add comments (incidentally I had that feature at http://findforward.com some years ago but disabled it later because it never seemed to have taken off in any relevant way...).

More at
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/googles-edit-search-results-experiment.html
http://justinhileman.info/blog/2008/07/googles-edit-search-results-experiment

[Image by the Justin Hileman.]

alek [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[moved from "Google allows DIGG style voting?" – thanks Mrrix32]

I didn't see a forum post about this, but this is pretty wild:
   http://justinhileman.info/blog/2008/07/googles-digg-like-social-search

beussery [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

[moved]

Yeah, it's pretty cool but I'm pretty sure it's not new:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Control-your-search-with-new-Google-experiment/0,130061733,339284192,00.htm

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Here's the news post on this from last year http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-11-29-n17.html – what's new now it seems is the comments box bit.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Oh, and there's some other refinements. Here's a screenshot from TechCrunch:
http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/googdigg.jpg

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/16/google-continues-to-test-a-search-interface-that-looks-more-like-digg-every-day/

(I'll adjust the title of this thread to merge the two things.)

Colin Colehour [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

TechCrunch had another video post about this:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/16/is-this-the-future-of-search/

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[moved from "Google testing Digg-like voting system"]

Is this [video] covered here yet:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/16/is-this-the-future-of-search/

beussery [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[moved]

There are other experiments going on as well:
http://www.google.com/support/faqs/?editresults

to try the one above see:
http://www.beussery.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/try-googles-new-experiment/

Pixelisation [PersonRank 1]

15 years ago #

[moved]

[put at-character here]beussery
"&btnG=Search&swm=1" doesn't work for me...
Any other idea to get the experimental version of Google search?

beussery [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]Pixelisation have you logged into your account

[put at-character here]Philipp the "Everyones edits", "Review edits" and "Exit edit mode" part seems new too?

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]beussery:

This feature is only available for some accounts and it's not related to visits to some web pages. Try following your own advice for a different Google account and you'll see that it doesn't work.

beussery [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]Ionut

Worked fine two times but not the third.

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