Google’s long-standing effort on making its search engine results pages more personalized continue with the roll out of a new feature – marking search results with cutesy, yellow star icons.
Actually, Stars are replacing the SearchWiki, which according to the Official Google blog didn’t get to be appreciated by users especially since it changes the order of Google’s organic search results. So, as an alternative way of marking and rediscovering web content provided by Google search results – marking them with Stars is a more lighweight and flexible solution.
To mark a search result with the star icon, you simply need to click the star marker. Once marked, the next time you do a search, all your previous starred items related to your current search will appear in a special list at the top of your results.
The Star feature syncs with Google Bookmarks and Google Toolbar. And while you are browsing the web, you can quickly click on the star icon to favorite a webpage and place it on the list of items that you have starred.
Google is rolling out the Star feature in search globally in the next few days.
Thanks for the update on this new feature. It is getting hard to keep track of all the changes going on around the net. Take care.
This is awful! I definitely DON'T want my search results tampered with. I'm trying to keep my website optimised, and now I have to sign out of Google just to look at the same search results everyone else sees.
What a dumb move, Google!
This is awful! I definitely DON'T want my search results tampered with. I'm trying to keep my website optimised, and now I have to sign out of Google just to look at the same search results everyone else sees.
What a dumb move, Google!