[Wikipedia-l] Google's experimental/feedback search engine

Mon Nov 13 00:49:08 UTC 2006

On 11/12/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just reading a slashdot article
> (http://slashdot.org/articles/06/11/12/1425219.shtml) about an
> unbranded test search engine (http://www.searchmash.com/) created by
> Google to "test innovative user interfaces in order to continually
> improve the overall search experience for our users".
>
> Upon searching it asks the user for feedback:
> > Were these results useful to you?
> > Web Pages Yes / No
> > Images Yes / No
> > Wikipedia Yes / No
>
> I suppose Google is trying to see whether users actually like getting
> Wikipedia results so much. The outcome of this feedback could have an
> impact upon us.
>
> --
> Oldak Quill (oldakquill at gmail.com)

We'll get the feedback we deserve, I suppose. It's too bad we haven't
implemented even a basic voting system for articles, but this might
work out to a very indirect substitute.

--Gwern