Google is testing a very Digg-like interface
This video shows a user interface being bucket tested by Google to select (probably randomly determined) users. (recorded by Adrian Pike, CTO of Tatango).
Users vote search results up or down – a down vote makes it disappear with a “poof,†an up vote moves the result to the first page.
Google is also testing comments, with linked user names, and others can vote those comments up and down. In effect, this test shows a Google that combines their search algorithm with every important feature of Digg.
It’s something they’ve been working on for nearly a year in various iterations.
In near future they will add it to their Google Search experimental site, so we all can test it.
It is quite clear, that Google will add social search feature to their more and more spam-overwhelming crawling search result to optimize search results by user recommendation.
I think, Google will try to be a social search provider, but is Google really trustworthy to compete with the viral efficiency of independent services like StumbleUpon or Digg.
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