It's more than six months for Google's Knol set foot in the webworld. Aimed at provide food for authors Knol was to offer more credible Knowledge units to web. Knol was anticipated to be a tough challange for Wikipedia. Things appear pretty well with 100,000 pieces of knowledge published and shockingly quick schedule of incremental releases. No way! Get in  the site is all filled with trash and nobody's interested in reading it. Even after half a year, its on queer street. Where do the authors go?

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Mucked up in Wikipedia's sea of information? Is it too hard to pin point what you were actually looking for? Don't worry, it happens to most of us. So what do you need to add precision to your searched topic? Well, there are roads open if you are ready to try.

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Google has launched a new Searchwiki service to provide users with a more personalized and interactive search option. There is a place where you can add your comment and publicize the comment for others to view of any page from any website.

You can also promote the websites you loved and remove others from the google search results. So next time you search for the same item, Google will make sure that you will be provided with your selected website at the top.

Google’s product manager Cedric Dupont and software engineer Corin Anderson explained in a blog post,

With just a single click you can move the results you like to the top or add a new site.  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.

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