Google Co-op was released in Beta this early May to introduce its users to a new concept of community and social tagging of websites that may influence the way we see search engine results in the future. Google claims that it “is a platform which enables you to use your expertise to help other users find information.” This means that if a person considers him or herself an expert on a particular subject, he or she may develop their own specialized search for the topic and can “label” web pages and websites believed to be the most authoritative on that topic. This also allows experts the ability to “suggest appropriate query refinements” which suggests to us that it will also allow them to alter the order and positioning that we see websites appearing in these filtered search engine results.
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