Google whacks SearchWiki
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Google has dumped its unpopular SearchWiki feature in favour of a simplified system of flagging search results with stars. SearchWiki was rolled out in late 2008. It allowed logged-in Google users to change the order of search results for frequently used queries. The ordering changes were only visible to the user who made them, but comments from other users could also be viewed. Google product manager Cedric Dupont blogged: "In our testing, we learned that people...
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