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

Next to each result, you should see three new options: a way to promote a web page at the top of the results, an option to remove results from the page (they’re still visible at the bottom of the page) and a feature that lets you share public comments about a result. After promoting a result, Google shows some unnecessary information about the other people who promoted the result.

There are the many things which may affected by the this Search Wiki. I am enlisting some good points and bad points about the Google SearchWiki.

Good things:

1. You can do the adjustments in the search results according to your preference with the most used queries by you, it will save your time in repeated search queries.

2. This may be used as the strong bookmarking tool, you may use Google search page instead of typical bookmarking sites.

3. For unfamiliar queries, check the wiki to find a different ranking and potentially useful comments. Try to avoid the wiki for queries that are likely to be spammed.

Bad things:

1. You have to log out if you want that the additional unwanted icons does not appear to you.

2. If you change any thing in the Google notebook then that will be available only for that particular query. As example, If you have arranged the search results for the keyword “example” and removed the site example.com from the rankings then, this site may appear in the list for the different keyword or query.

3. Commenting in the search wiki is publicly accessible, means any one can see your comment. There is no option for the private comment.

Google has always used people’s clicks to improve the quality of search results, so the new options could influence the ranking algorithms in different ways. On the Blog of NYtimes Marissa Mayer said:

This time we aren’t using SearchWiki to influence ranking but it is easy to see how that could happen in the future……Search is adapting to the Internet as it becomes a more participatory medium. Now you have people telling us specific things about how they’d like to see their search results. You could imagine if we do see a particular site (about which) people have a unanimous opinion, that might trigger external things. Like maybe we should check out our spam control.

You may get the simple idea about the search wiki with the hep of the following video.