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Google lets you tweak its algorithms
SEARCH OUTFIT Google has provided a tool that will let you tweak the algorithms for each search you do.
Google's SearchWiki shows an up arrow for promoting websites, an X for deleting them and a speech bubble for adding comments.
But if Google delivers useless search results, it will be possible to wipe them and you will never see them again.
The new scheme, which was announced last night, is designed to give the search engine a more personal touch.
Google will now let users reshuffle results so their favourite websites get top billing and disliked destinations get discarded the next time they enter the same request.
It is the first time Google has allowed its audience to alter the order of search results.
Spokesgoogle Marissa Mayer said that while the revisions won't change Google's closely-guarded formulas for ranking websites, the company isn't ruling out using the personalised data to change its internet searching algorithms.
However at the moment all Google wants to do is make specific sets of results more useful to each individual that comes to its search engine. ยต
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R.I.P Experts Exchange. I need never see your paid-for search results ever again. Good riddance..
wonderful - now I can demote all those links to Elsevier, etc., that provide the full text of articles to the Google search engine spider, but only present me with the abstract.
I wonder how crack-proof this is. Since many people remain logged in to their google accounts all the time, will it be possible for a web page to forge requests to remove rivals or promote specific sites?
Got that right Mark. The first thing I did when I saw that I could click the X next to search items was search for "Expert Exchange" and hit the X next to the link that appeared at the top.

Good riddance.

On another note, they had this feature long ago, but removed it for some reason. I don't think it correlated results from other people though.
experts arnt such experts clicj on the google search and scroll to the bottom.

bingo its free!!
However, since I don't like being tracked pervasively ( google-apis, google-ads, googlesyndecation, google-everything-else... ), I'll be using Opera for my wiki-searches, and my narmal FF for webbing the intertubes...

Ha!