Customise your Google Search

If you use Google search whilst logged in to your Google account, you’ll probably have noticed something new by now. There’s some little control buttons appearing next to your search results. So what’s that all about?

Launched last week (and unusually for a Google implementation, rolled out across the board), Google’s new SearchWiki allows users to change the way their searches are handled. Using the little toggle buttons you can move search results up, or down, or delete them entirely from your search. You can also add comments about each search result. Of course, this only changes what you see, when you’re searching whilst logged into your own account, so you can’t just go around deleting your competitor’s listing (admit it, you did think of that, didn’t you?), but it’s a way of making your search results more relevant to you.