I didn’t pay too much attention to it until I was searching for a video and came across this video from Google about Google WikiSearch today:

Google WikiSearch Intro

Here’s a quick and dirty test that I just ran:

Google WikiSearch Disabled

Google WikiSearch Enabled

Confirm enabling Google WikiSearch for the first time

It definitely looks pretty cool that you can add notes and get rid of sites that you don’t like too much. My thoughts are, if I’m going to be repeating a search, why do I need to rearrange things and put notes. That means that I already know what I’m looking for. And isn’t that why we have bookmarks and sites such as delicious, digg, furl etc. to hold and organize our bookmarks and share them with others…?

The other ramifications might be that Google will start using human edited rankings to influence their SERP’s (search engine results page). I’m not sure how much weight Google would give to the wikisearch if any at this time. But I’m sure people out there who are doing SEO will be testing some things out with this.

I’m not sure if I like the added “new feature” or not yet as I haven’t tested it extensively; however it seems that there isn’t a way to turn off the feature as noted by this article from the Washington Post and PC World Google SearchWiki Addition Fails to Wow.

You can get more info about it directly from google at SearchWiki.

If you have used Google WikiSearch or have some thoughts please leave your comments.