Customize Your Search Pages With Google Search Wiki - A Compete Guide

What you will search the results will appear with two buttons, “like it” and “don’t like it”. The “Like It” button move the site and search results upwards and the “don’t like it” button removes the search result, but only for the current query. There’s also an option to add new pages that don’t appear in the list of search results: “at the bottom of the search results you can give the address of a page that’s relevant to your search. When you search for these same keyword(s) the page you’ve suggested will appear at the top with this orange marker.”

In July Amit Singhal said on the Google Blog which was very interesting:

No discussion of Google’s ranking would be complete without asking the common - but misguided! - question: “Does Google manually edit its results?” Let me just answer that with our third philosophy: no manual intervention. In our view, the web is built by people. You are the ones creating pages and linking to pages. We are using all this human contribution through our algorithms. The final ordering of the results is decided by our algorithms using the contributions of the greater Internet community, not manually by us. We believe that the subjective judgment of any individual is, well … subjective, and information distilled by our algorithms from the vast amount of human knowledge encoded in the web pages and their links is better than individual subjectivity.

You can see more screen shots and detailed review on Justin Hileman’s blog. Where Justin was saying that, you can search anyone’s edits and there appears a search edit lists for each user. “This whole thing looks like an experiment into crowdsourced search results.”

You can promote the results of any search query by voting the site, you may add new web pages in the specific query results and also post comment or review for the results with reading the others’ comments. It’s not clear whether user votes influence the overall ranking algorithm, but it’s likely that this is not the case.

You should understand the working of the Google search wiki. On the SearchEngineLand Matt McGee is explained that how it works with the appropriate screenshots and examples.

Its working is simple as explained on the SearchEngineLand in the Google SearchWiki 101: An Illustrated Guide