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Let's face it, unless you've typed in something spelt very wrong, you are searching for something amazingly technical or obscure, or you are using some very little-known search engine. It is unlikely that much that you search for will not have been searched by someone before you.
I think it would
be a useful feature if you had an option on search engines of seeing which of the search results people with the same query used. As in "39/45 searchers visited this page" on the link.
Whilst this would not guarantee that the link would be any more useful, it would be a helpful indicator of whether a certain site is likely to be worth visiting.
AllTheWeb Search Engine used to list other people's recent searches
http://www.allthewe...g=crv&_sb_lang=pref
[Dub, Oct 02 2005]
no ranking, but entertaining
http://www.metaspy.....metac.spy/metaspy/
Metaspy oldschool [Giblet, Jan 21 2006]
Google's baking of this idea. Shown in window.
http://www.huffingt...tion_n_3435993.html
[pashute, Jan 07 2014]
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Google does not have what you suggested, but does have 'Google Suggest', which automatically suggests popular searches as you type, with the number of results for each. You have to type 'halfb' before halfbakery comes up. |
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I'm sure that your idea would be quickly implemented by Googlewhackers to create yet another variant of their sport. |
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Nice one [hidden truths], might be nice here also. |
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Also, Ask Jeeves <discusted look> used to have a fake one of this (it didn't trust kids to put in things that were display-worthy, so it just did a looping list of good questions to ask). But no-one likes Ask Jeeves anyhow. |
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You raise a good point [boysparks]. I was using on the thoery that repeat searchers would make it more valuable, but your idea is a definite improvement. There would be no more onus on a searcher to leave feedback than say, on an IMDB review, and people do so there. |
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Google is rumored to use the relative (to position) percentage of clickthroughs to a given page in their ranking algorithm. |
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If someone did a similar search and clicked on a bad site, and 60 other people fell for the same link, then it would suggest that this is a good site even though everyone fell for the bait. |
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Better digg, stumble, blink, myweb, kaboodle, reddit or thousand one ways of other people's searches and visits of those pages with ratings avialable now. Then what is meaning of knowing percentage of visits per searched pages !!! I dont think this option is not needed for even a SEO specialist. |
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