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Is Google Becoming a Social Search Engine
By Daya Baran at August 27, 2008 0 Comments
If the series of tests that Google engineers are doing on their search portal is any indication of what may soon become of the Google Search, then we might be looking at Social-powered Google search engine in the near future. According to Ben Gomes in a post at the Official Google Blog, they are conducting “little experiments” and testing of everything from the barely visible to the glaringly obvious.”
One of these experiments involves manipulating the search results not by Google’s automated machines but by Google users. In the screenshots provided, the green up and down arrows were being displayed at the end of every search results links. Clicking on those arrows influence future placing of the search results in Google SERPs the next time they are displayed. More..
Labels: google, Search, social media
