WOW WOW WOW – take a look at this video (if you haven’t seen it already):

Google Searchwiki Demo on YouTube

Now, Google is no longer a search engine alone; would you mind calling it a social bookmarking website that also offers the best results on the web for a search term? Would you mind calling it a giant that is somewhat going to change the way you reach a web page? Are you waiting to see something like this in Yahoo too?

Anyways, I have waited for a few days to use this feature. But perhaps I am one of the unlucky few :( and thus I am not going to talk about the flaws in the system. There are lots of posts in the web that you can read.

In my wildest dream, I can see a new service being offered by different web marketing companies: Get great reviews on your website from different Google accounts – Get more targeted visitors … blab blab blab.

I always believe that people have knowledge – they can decide what is good for them. I respect their opinion. At the same time I believe that my opinion on nuclear weapon is less valuable than a nuclear scientist’s opinion even though my opinion may be lot more popular. People may like to follow my opinion than the scientist’s. And how would a general visitor know if the person is a scientist? How does Google tackle this? Will they make the contributors bound to develop a profile page? Isn’t that vulnerable to spam too? And do you really think that general people would be interested to visit each and every contributor’s profile page?

You might be saying that, social bookmarking websites follow the same process. But think twice: Google is almost your gateway to internet. Do you really search what people are talking about the website in a social bookmarking platform before you interact with it?

To add to this, I am not ready to call it a Wiki. The first reason is that in a wiki page, you do not get different opinions. Different contributors from different parts of the world, develop a content – single piece of content. A wiki page is anything but opinions. But here you are bound to get lots of opinions.

And this is now an open solution for Google to store your data.