Last night Google officially launched its SearchWiki function. Now you can customize your own search results—upgrading the best, deleting the worst and adding notes to any you like. It is, in characteristic Google fashion, straightforward and ridiculously easy to use. It is also—for a company that tends to follow the release early and often dictum by quietly adding upgrades and features with little fanfare—an uncharacteristic hard launch. Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb notes, "We expect this to be a very big deal. ... This isn't Google Labs, this isn't a little project off to the side, apparently there's a Google Search Wiki team and they have access to the primary search results page."
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• Michael Arrington asks: If it ain't broke, why fix it?
• Official Google Blog on the release
• John Battelle wonders whether people want customized results.
• and VentureBeat says SearchWiki proves that despite its size Google retains the ability to reinvent itself.
Finally, here's the official Google video explainer:
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