Google released on Thursday a new feature for its SearchWiki service, which enables users to get more involved in the system’s search results. The new customization process lets users change the results’ ranking and also add comments and annotations. 

"With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site," Google’s product manager Cedric Dupont and software engineer Corin Anderson explained in a blog post. "You can also write notes attached to a particular site and remove results that you don't feel belong. These modifications will be shown to you every time you do the same search in the future. SearchWiki is available to signed-in Google users," they added.

For now, Google users can only change their own search results, but all the notes can be publicly viewed. The explanation for this boundry is simple, as users might have a different view on that represents a helpful result, and that is why each one can adjust these parametres as they see fit. 

The new options are expected to make the service more popular and help build a bigger user base, which is known to increase the ad revenue potential. Also, these actions recording personalized information for each user, could be used by Google to better target its ad campaign, depending on the specific interest of each individual.

In order to edit and customize the search results, users will have to be signed in to their Google accounts. From that point on, all the new features will become available, allowing the complete rearrangement of the search results, the deletion of unhelpful results and also the remarks on the search’s usefulness.