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Have you ever disagreed to a Google search result? Wanted to annotate a result page or even delete or add your favorite websites on your searches? SearchWiki from Google exactly does that. Though SearchWiki has been on an experiment for a long time, starting from Thursday it would be available by default for anyone who’s logged into Google and does a search.

The new SearchWiki will let you customize your search results by deleting, adding, rearranging or even commenting on search results. However, you have to be logged in to enjoy these privileges. Adding annotations can help you remember them as the notes would be shown every time the site appears on a search result.

Though these changes would reflect only for that specific user account, Google gives the option to share your notes and editing that you made to your search results. You can see how the community has collectively edited their search results using the “See all notes for this SearchWiki” option.

These changes can also help genuine content websites to get more notes and higher rankings. Google would definitely use these tips to make their search engine better. From the users perspective, implementing SearchWiki will help them search better and easier.

The recent reports by comScore reveals that 81% of internet searches done in India were using Google sites. This shows Google’s monopoly in the country which has the world’s second largest population.

Google reported 1 billion searches in June which is an 81 percent of the total searches done. Google’s dominion was followed in a far distance by Yahoo with just 117 million searches. This is a huge difference when compared to Google. With just 9.4 % by Yahoo other sites like Ask had 1.9 and MSN sites had just 1.7 percent of total search.

Rediff.com, one of the hugely popular internet portals in India shared 1.5 percent of the searches ranking in fifth position.

Jack Flanagan, executive vice president at comScore stated, “As the top local player in the search market, Indian web portal Rediff.com attracts slightly less than 2 percent of all searches, indicating that there is substantial room for growth among the local Internet brands.”

Though 15% of the world’s total population are Indians, India ranks 37th with 53 searches per user per month, the global average being 93. However, with the increase in internet users in India, there seems to be a larger market and tremendous growth for internet search.

Gone are the days when a site used to stay in a position for months even years. It is now been seen that the results have a lot of difference day after day and computer to computer. So, if your website shows up at No.1 position do not be surprised if it shows in the second page a day after.

The results are also not location based. As there are huge differences in results on two computers in a same location. Two visitors using Google Search in New York may get a totally different search result.

One of the results being the huge number of Google servers probabily in Millions. However, frequent change in rankings would not be a good idea to go for.

Nokia informed that it would incorporate Google’s search engine into Nokia Mobile applications for search. Notably, Google is the most popular search engine covering more than 60% of the world’s search volume and Nokia is the world’s largest cell phone maker.
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