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- jec68, on 11/23/2008, -4/+42WAAHWAAWAHH IM A CRANKY INTERNET BABY AND I HATE CHANGES
- Venemous, on 11/23/2008, -3/+28I kinda like it...................
- Rocco03, on 11/23/2008, -0/+21I don't think it's a bad idea.
Many times I've searched for something and when I enter the site I find out the page is filled with a giant list of tags intended to trick google and the content has nothing to do with what I was looking for. - BradOFarrell, on 11/23/2008, -2/+19Or you can just not click the search wiki-related links.
I love how any time any website changes in any way, there are always vocal people who are mad and want it back to the previous version, regardless of the actual changes. - monsieurflibble, on 11/23/2008, -1/+18If you don't like it, why not just... ignore it?
Also, I'm sure it's no coincidence this article is from an SEO site... the same people who presumably would lose out if people could 'vote down' link farms. - ileftfark, on 11/23/2008, -1/+15I think that this 'feature' can be very useful, but with any application of computers, it is helpful for people to be seeing the same thing. How many times have you (over the phone) told someone, "OK, click Start > Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs", etc. This will hinder that kind of process because it aims to make everyone's experience different. For me, that is great. To try to explain to others... well, not so much.
- phogasmic, on 11/23/2008, -0/+14why would you want to disable it? Its the perfect to eliminate useless pages built only for the purpose of seating money from Ad Sense. I love it
- 40yrOldVirgin, on 11/23/2008, -0/+9What a pathetic spam attempt. You people don't even try anymore.
- stutimandal, on 11/22/2008, -3/+11I don't know why Google is using "queries suggestion" forcibly. I've disabled it 20 times already and it keeps coming back after a day or two. It is annoying.
- cfr98erl8, on 11/22/2008, -0/+7The article looks to have been updated with another workaround to disable searchwiki, that is url based and so doesn't require a particular browser or greasemonkey.
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -0/+6Reverse psychology, eh? That won't work on me. Unless you're using reverse reverse psychology, in order to stop me from going onto a competitor's website... YOU CAN'T FOOL ME ROBOT! *Jumps out of window*
- crushfan, on 11/23/2008, -1/+7Why would you hate it? It's not like anything changed, they just added a couple of new buttons here and there, you don't have to use it? That wasn't really a question.
- CoolGoose, on 11/23/2008, -0/+5I find that it's somewhat decent. I usually search for tech related articles and a random bug opened on a random trac with no details just annoys me.
- saadkamal, on 11/23/2008, -0/+5But this feature will be gamed....and then low quality 'suggestions' with start coming up. For me I still like the old Google..
- alexanderhorre, on 11/23/2008, -1/+5This feature is only enabled via the .com domain. All other Google domains don't have it.
- Finalreminder, on 11/23/2008, -0/+4Barely noticed it. When did that feature come out?
- heartsblood, on 11/23/2008, -1/+4I like the search wiki.
- stutimandal, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Going to settings/preferences and check the radio button "Do not provide search query suggestions."
But it resets in a few days. Something is wrong with Google -- finally. - saadkamal, on 11/23/2008, -0/+3Do you mean Google Suggest? From where did you turn it off?
- Fragalishus, on 11/24/2008, -0/+2Safe Search keeps getting turned back on for me all the time, too. I have multiple Google accounts, but I stay logged out from all of them. I've also logged in to all of them and disabled it then logged back out yet it keeps getting turned back on. ***** you, Google. ***** or gtfo
(j/k Google please don't assimilate me) - saadkamal, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Well some of it's features are nice..but TechCrunch showed some screen shots and It didn't look good! Just too much spam on comments...
- TheMachine1, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2Presumably Google will weigh each vote very differently. It want be like Digg one vote per user. So gaming it will be much harder.
- ultrafez, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2It works on google.co.uk
- caltheos, on 11/23/2008, -0/+2I was a bit confused, i haven't seen any change in my search results, even while logged in. Is it gone already? only available for certain markets?
- TheMachine1, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1Yeah some time when I search I look at a very large number of links and having a feature to report the obvious garbage is something I have wanted along time.
- avaugha4, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1I agree completely. I didn't even notice it until this article, it is so subdued.
- moehorn, on 12/07/2008, -0/+1Update
The real way to get rid of it is to:
1. Add "&hl=all" to your search query.
2. Goto http://www.google.com/reviews/w and restore all the results that you edited. - moehorn, on 12/07/2008, -0/+1This doesnt actually turn it off it only hides the extra stuff that searchwiki adds. Anyway got a real way to turn it off?
- a0me, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2Personally, I'd really like to know how to enable SearchWiki... I've looked through all the options available on my account and on Google.com and nothing. Nada.
- moehorn, on 12/07/2008, -0/+1Searchwiki is hell for any SEOr because when you want to check your rankings you go back to it and your rankings are how you set them before.
At present the solution above with greasemonkey is not a real solution. It is only a visual display change, it doesnt actually switch searchwiki off.
Anyone got any real answers for this?
All I have come up with so far is to add "&hl=all" to your search query. - jacobmp92, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1@TgeMachine1:
Or not at all. SearchWiki customizations, save public comments, are account specific and only affect your individual search results. - chubbstar, on 11/23/2008, -2/+3whats the point of disabling it?
- a0me, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1Thanks. I can't wait to be able to use that feature and decide on whether I like it or not.
- bauchidgw, on 11/23/2008, -0/+1here is the script for critics and pros of searchwiki
http://www.facesaerch.com/blog/disable-google-sear ...
it just ads and additional nav-link to the google product navigation and gives users what google forgot
http://www.facesaerch.com/blog/disable-google-sear ...
a simple choice to say yes or no to searchwiki - saadkamal, on 11/23/2008, -2/+3Ok seems like a lot of you Like SearchWiki... So I have updated the post with a cool SearchWiki experiment that will enable Sound Effects for every action you perform in SearchWiki -- http://www.saadkamal.com/google/google-searchwiki- ...
- saadkamal, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2I have Updated the Post Again with a new option that can use to Turn On/Off SearchWiki with a simple click.
- saadkamal, on 11/23/2008, -1/+2It should be enabled by default when you search Google. If you dont see it..just wait for few more days.
- saadkamal, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1Just wait for few more days... It has not been enabled for all regions/accounts yet.
- svivian, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1"START ... END"
Did you think you were writing a telegram? - julieday, on 12/07/2008, -0/+0for the geniuses chiming in suggesting "ignoring" or "just dont click the search wiki links" these are not logical answers to removing search wiki's functionality. search wiki is not just visual changes to the search results, it takes all of your search or "web history" into account when it serves your searches as well as your location and also factors in your most recent searches to determine relevancy. if you have any wits about you , you might be able to see that this is NOT a good thing. in essence what this does is possibly censor content which would have otherwise been visible had it not taken these elements into account. so the results are no longer "fair", it now tries to tailor your results to display what it "thinks" you want.
- cliffr39, on 11/23/2008, -0/+0That was happening to me, also. I turned it off once again and haven't seen it in about two weeks now. Either they stopped forcing it on people or they fixed that "bug" that reset the stupid thing all the time.
- darkism, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1SEO != spam.
- saadkamal, on 11/23/2008, -1/+1Not long ago...
- Hardcase, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1Buried for blatant self promotion.
- inactive, on 11/23/2008, -4/+3lame
- zyce, on 11/23/2008, -9/+6START I HATE THIS ***** AND I HAVE NO CLUE WHY END
- hiPpymIck, on 11/23/2008, -4/+1theres a Fx addon Chunk It
that will pull out chunks of text with your search terms highlighted
in a left hand panel when you search
if im looking for something specific
and i know the result i want wont necessarily be the first
but its almost certain to be somewhere among the top results
it saves time
its huge for an addon ~ 8MB
link if wanted..
http://www.tigerlogic.com/ChunkIt/ - 4U55l3NlNJ4, on 11/23/2008, -7/+3I guess the deal MSN had with google & yahoo a while back was to make their search engines worse because http://www.live.com/ is a better search engine than google & yahoo put together. Makes you wonder how much google & yahoo would have got paid to do that (if it really happened anyway).
Dugg for useful information, was hoping they'd just get rid of that feature already but you've directed people to information that'll give the user the choice of having the feature or not instead of having it forced upon them or for them to look at another search engine.
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