On 11/12/06, Oldak Quill <oldakquill(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Just reading a slashdot article
(
http://slashdot.org/articles/06/11/12/1425219.shtml) about an
unbranded test search engine (
http://www.searchmash.com/) created by
Google to "test innovative user interfaces in order to continually
improve the overall search experience for our users".
Upon searching it asks the user for feedback:
Were these results useful to you?
Web Pages Yes / No
Images Yes / No
Wikipedia Yes / No
I suppose Google is trying to see whether users actually like getting
Wikipedia results so much. The outcome of this feedback could have an
impact upon us.
--
Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)
We'll get the feedback we deserve, I suppose. It's too bad we haven't
implemented even a basic voting system for articles, but this might
work out to a very indirect substitute.
--Gwern