Google launched Search Wiki option, I wrote about that was in experimentary phase. Now after changing your set language to English you can use this option. It enables us to mark up specific search results to the top or remove them if we found them not valuable. We can also add comments to particular results.

What is most important, effects of our customization are available only for us, so de facto we can set our own credibility rank, based only on our needs and experience. However SearchWiki contains some social aspect. First and foremost we can share our comments by making them public and contributing to the community. Second, we can browse rank, created on basis of all users activities connected with particular query - we can also add results that we find are useful.

Is it the end of so-called black SEO? Spread of Search Wiki can enable people not to see price comparators sites or sites that were artificially pulled out to the top in the results, that means we can get the information we want quicker. At the same time the changes are visible only when we are logged in to Google, so ‘fake’ results will still be visible for all non-Googlers and these who at the moment would not be logged in. Probably black SEO will be still practiced, although its influence on popularity of pulled out sites can be significant.

Google’s video, presenting how Search Wiki works:

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Yesterday Brian Ussery from beu blog published post on how Google improved indexing of Flash content, annouced earlier this year. Brian made some research to answer the question if anything really changed. On his blog you can find a report on that issue.

From Brain’s report you can find out that:

• In fact Google doesn’t associate text content in Flash with the parent URLs although both URLs (Flash and parent one) are often indexed;
• Flash files be displayed in PageRank separately to their parent URLs;
• GoogleBot does not index URLs containing fragment idetifiers (so-called #anchors);
• Translations of Flash sites is still not possible.

Brain’s analysis is more in depth, you can find screen-shots and full desrption of his test, at the end you can find some tips for Flash SEO.

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