Google SearchWiki Makes Bookmarking Less Important

Yesterday's release of SearchWiki is being highly discussed in the SEO world, and in good reason, as thousands if not tens of thousands of people make a living gaming the SEO system to make their articles and products show up in the top spot for certain search results.

I think its important to note that for right now, individual's votes don't affect anyone else's searches. Sure, Google will be storing this information, and chances are, they may ATTEMPT to include this voting behavior on general web results eventually, but we're a ways off from that point.

For the time being, if you search for a website regularly, you can make sure that that website will always show up as the top result for that query. You no longer need to bookmark a page. You can just vote it up specific to a certain query.

This gives users one more reason to go to Google in the first place. Win Win.

5 swickis I Use Regularly

Free Discount Coupons - Ranks the best places to find discount coupons for online retailers such as Amazon.com, Shoes.com, BestBuy.com and much more.

Web Design Resources - Helps me find the best code hacks for my wordpress blog

Belize Travel Information - Helps me plan my trip to Belize.

Repairing and Maintaining Your Home - Identifies small apartment upkeep projects.

Free Online Sports Games - Ranked online sports games for football, basketball, etc.

One Wicked Scary Fish

Alien? Nope, this is the Humpback Anglerfish. And while we're on the topic of bizarre looking sea animals, check out the totally revamped Ocean Animals swicki. You'll find pictures and factoids for all kinds of weird underwater creatures...and some common ones too. But who really cares about those?

Snakes on a Search Engine

If Samuel L worked at a custom search company, he would have none of this. Good thing he doesn't, so I went ahead and made a search portal for information, videos, and photos of snakes.

I think the Anaconda pictures are the craziest, but there are some nice feeding videos as well. Another reason not to let these snakes on a plane.