Google Promote and Remove

Google is experimenting with new Promote and Remove buttons in the SERPS moving the search experience to a more personal level. They clearly state that this is an experiment and it may only last a short time.

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. - Source : Google Experimental Search

If this experiment works, it could mean a whole new level of thinking in the SEO world. Getting a top ranking for any keyword may just be a thing of the past. This would seem to be ushering in a new era for Google where bogus search results will easily be washed out by the people doing the searches, however, as we have seen in the past with things like Google Bombs, it may also open up a new problem for them to combat.

There is also a great video that goes along with Google’s announcement that explains the SearchWiki

What do you think?

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5 Responses to “Google Promote and Remove”

  1. Google Experimental Search - SERP Control Says:
    November 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    [...] feel is appropriate. Likewise, you can bring up lower ranking results to the top. Lastly, you can completely remove listings if you desire [...]

  2. Allyn Says:
    November 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm

    I noticed this only in Google Chrome.
    I am NOT a fan of this because there are ways to game this system big time.
    For example, imagine hiring 100 workers in India to do nothing but promote your sites all day?
    Those of us who promote with good content would not stand a chance.
    AL

  3. David Cooley Says:
    November 21st, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    Allyn, I think you are misunderstanding what it does, it does not change rankings for others. Only your rankings and it adds notes, so having a 100 people do anything is not going to change the ranking.

  4. Josh Says:
    December 10th, 2008 at 10:44 pm

    I think, google might be using this data but I dont think its anything for us to worry about for one they probably haven’t put it into there algorithm yet and it will be up there with the other 2,000 things they use to evaluate sites. But a better way to get this up would be to make a worm that auto put up someone site, then u would be a instant superstar might as well thro it up every 10 seconds like spyware branding. I dont think hiring anyone will do the trick and u can reach others so many ways doesn’t sound efficient to me. But until this theory has been tested thoroughly bye people from stomper net or like organizations I don’t have much faith into wasting any time or resources into it.

  5. Yahoo Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    Google Promote is practically worthless: http://monkeynostrils.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-promote-button-means-almost.html

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