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September 23, 2005
Google Testing Remove Results Feature
Google's testing a new option letting a small percentage of people remove results they don't like from their own personalized search results. This will only happen if you're logged in and using Google Personalized Search. In other words, see a page you don't like? You can block that page from coming back. It only will impact the personalized results you see -- not the personalized results of others or general results that anyone sees.
Whether it will be released to everyone will depend on how the experiment goes, Google says. Whether the data might be rolled out to being used more broadly for regular, non-personalized results also remains to be seen, I'm told. It's just gone live about an hour ago.
See also the A Search Marketer's Look At Yahoo My Web 2.0 for Search Engine Watch members for a detailed look at how a similar feature operates on Yahoo. Yahoo provides more info on this (it's in My Web 1.0, not My Web 2.0, here).
Postscript: Google's Matt Cutts has posted more info about the feature over here.
Posted by Danny Sullivan on September 23, 2005 1:20 PM
