Google Operating System reports that Google is again trying out a new option--SearchWiki with selected users.
I actually have it as an option in my Google account. Take a look and see if you do as well!
SearchWiki allows the user to edit search result lists. You can push specific results up or down the list, make notes on specific results, and submit recommendations for URLs that you feel should be in the results list. You can also view the SearchWiki notes and recommendations made by other users for a specific search. It sort of puts the community into the flow of the search engine.
I'm not sure that I would use this consistently---I depend more on the Google algorithms than on individually customizing my own results. Perhaps people who feel compelled to edit Wikipedia entries are the same audience for SearchWiki?
Here's a video from Justin Hileman that shows SearchWiki's capability:
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