You might get a vote button for Google search results

By Ashish Mohta

Yup, don’t get surprising but Goggle labs seems to be experimenting with Vote like button which allows users to give a vote ( positive or negative) for a particular site which comes in search engine result. When I first saw it I was in little panic that will it affect the Search Engine ranking but nope that would be bad right.

Google Says

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.

My Views on this:

I would say its a very nice Google is going to do as it can let users find sites which are actually fulfilling their requirement, Search engines are keyword based but that’s not how human mind works. We are forced to learn search tricks to get result and what you require might be buried in 100th page of Google search result.

How it might affect your traffic:

If you have right content people can vote for you and Google might use that data for their internal purposes to manually find if your post is worth against the post which is ranking above you because of high valued keyword not right content. However it can impact negative also if your link get lot of negative votes, who knows some angry user but just spam you out

It would be interesting to see how Google uses this data in future. As far as my analysis says it is just tip of ice burg and there is something more which will change the shape of Search Engines…..You just never know.

 

About The Author of this article:
Ashish is one of the co-author of this blog and writes on various interesting softwares, PC tips and more. You can read more of his articles here.

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  • Brown Baron, November 30, 2007:

    This should prove interesting. I’m guessing that they’ll add a “see top voted results” link or section. It seems that Google is slowly going the social route. Great find buddy.

  • Ashish Mohta, November 30, 2007:

    @Brown: Finally they are understanding the power of social driven sites.
    Top Voted result is another good thought. That makes me wonder how much traffic some site will loose and how much others will gain!!!

  • Manav, November 30, 2007:

    Nice initiative by google…
    thanx for educating…
    seems dis will ceratinally make searching a better option…n google a better place to be in for searchs..

  • Ashish Mohta, November 30, 2007:

    @Manav: I am looking forward how things will shape. If they make it useful there will be a rethinking on search engine techniques.

  • Shankar Ganesh, November 30, 2007:

    Yeah, but then again we’ll see spammers getting their sites easily on top, wouldn’t that happen?

    Correct me if I’m wrong.

  • Ashish Mohta, November 30, 2007:

    @Shankar: Its very well possible but since its restricted to just users individual votes it will not affect other’s search result. But we still need to see what google is coming up with

  • Anand, December 1, 2007:

    Oh..They have stolen the idea from the little known search engine called Sproose.com

    It was a brilliant idea and I really thought those guys would get famous..But now Google is getting it themselves!

  • Ashish Mohta, December 2, 2007:

    @Anand: Yes I would agree with you there as it seems. But only if google will do it properly, will be appreciated.

    Thanks for the comments and welcome to Technospot.Net

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