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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Am I the only one that remembers this EXACT feature on Google about a year ago? You had to be logged in to iGoogle, and ea
by teach 16y ago
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Am I the only one that remembers this EXACT feature on Google about a year ago? You had to be logged in to iGoogle, and each search result had a small [X] to the right of it that would appear on hover.
If you clicked it, that result wouldn't appear for you again. I used it all the time.
Then, lately it's gone. Maybe I was part of a small, randomly-selected test group?
- mthoms 16y agoThat was part of Google's SearchWiki experiment. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-search-your-own.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searchwiki-make-searc... That experiment was replaced by Google "Stars" in March 2010 because, according to Google: > In our testing, we learned that people really liked the idea of marking a website for future reference, but they didn't like changing the order of Google's organic search results. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/stars-make-search-more-personal.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/03/stars-make-search-mor... I personally think there is much more going on here than Google admits.