How do you think people might use Google Sidewiki on Mahalo Answers, Search or How To articles--if at all!
Seems like a really interesting technology, and you can be sure that Google is looking for pages with a lot of discussion on them in terms of search ranking (or at least that would be my guess).
Sounds like it would be a good idea for us to post a comment to some of our pages that are not indexed in Google and see if they magically appear.
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Realistically, I don't know if Google has the ability to adjust their core formulas every time a new product is released.
Last year, Google introduced something called "SearchWiki" that sparked a similar conversation. Folks were worried that their results would be negativley effected. These annotated results haven't really caught on and if someone does take the time to provide feedback, they only take the time to submit feedback when they feel very strongly (positively or negativley) about the website.
I suspect that Sidewiki will have a similar result. While it may not gain wide acceptance, the large install base of the Google Toolbar combined with the "fringe" feedback that SearchWiki has seen and I don't think that it will have a substantial affect on either productivity or traffic.
In my mind, both the Sidewiki and Searchwiki projects need to be founded in a large or influential social network to reach critical mass. If Facebook had search results like Google or a toolbar with an install base as large as the Google Toolbar, it would make sense to me that groups of people would leave notes, feedback and reviews for their friends. On the other hand, if Google Wave catches on and it's as much of a social network as Google is hoping for, then these Wiki's could just be slightly ahead of their time and they may become important.
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The biggest drawback I see for Sidewiki, is it uses your full first and last name from your Google profile. The exception is if you don't have a profile, but you have a Picassa username, you can use that Picassa username. On some sites, I still like to have a bit of anonymity. If I could set my username to SocalSue or a similar variant, it would be very useful for commenting on Mahalo pages.
How about a Mahalo browser toolbar for page managers? Have it directly tied to our Mahalo accounts. This could have a sidebar feature as well as some other page management tools.
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As far as it being used here in the answers section, well I am not sure because we all write what we feel here so what is the point of a sidewiki?
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Yes, if I wanted to comment on a page, I already have Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter, FriendFeed etc. And I would usually want to comment on something for the benefit of people in my network, and read comments from those people, not random strangers.
I suppose it's a little bit like commenting and trackbacks for webpages that aren't on a blog, but I don't see myself using it at the moment.