Google has backed off the Digg purchase. But I doubt they’ve given up on social voting and commenting in search results. There was a lot of buzz last week on a possible marriage between Google and Digg, along with posts on TechCrunch showing how Google is experimenting with social search.
If you want to experience what it might be like if Google were to implement voting and commenting features into their results, you don’t have to imagine it. You can just use Scour.
Scour is a meta search engine that uses Google, MSN and Yahoo results for their own search results and adds the very thing everyone has been talking about: voting and commenting.
It is “social search” in action. And it feels kind of good to be able to vote up worthy sites and comment, even though it has zero effect on the results on any of the engines.
Tags: digg, google, meta search, scour, social search, social search results, techcrunch
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