[WikiEN-l] Googley comments

[Emily Monroe]

> I notice the button to submit a comment is labelled "Make a public  
> comment"; confusing!

Maybe what they mean is "Make a comment, generic member of the public."

Emily
On Sep 2, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Luna wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 12:01 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
>
>> I just today noticed a new interesting thing while doing a Google   
>> search.
>> Under each result there is a cloud looking thing and if you hover   
>> it it
>> says "Comment".  So I tried it.
>>
>
> In the Google search settings page, I followed a "learn more" link  
> about
> SearchWiki, which took me here:
> http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=115764
>
> Looks like any comments/promotions/rankings you make are stored for  
> your own
> use -- the documentation on the help page seems to suggest that this
> information is private (in the sense that it's only viewed by you on  
> your
> own searches, if not necessarily as a matter of policy), but I  
> notice the
> button to submit a comment is labelled "Make a public comment";  
> confusing!
>
> -Luna
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