Dragtotop is an interesting tool I came across today. I show the results of a search for "Family Search" here at right. Drag to Top pulls things from Google, adds twitter and news feeds, Google images, Google video, and gives a spot for comments. If you disagree with the top hits, you can drag from the full Google results to move what you think is the best hit to the top. The next Drag to Top user who performs the same search will see the one you dragged up. Over time, the more people who drag a particular hit to the top, the more it "sticks" to the top of the list. Hmmm. I guess you'd call it a search engine with social rankings modifying Google's page rankings.I like the idea as well as the presentation and inclusion of Twitter, images, videos, etc. I wouldn't call it an earthshattering breakthrough or even something I would use regularly, but it's a great idea that portends things for the future.
From their own description:
Dragtotop.com is a manual search engine optimized by you, where you decide what is important and what should be on top. Simply drag what you like from web, images, videos and news search results to the top and let others in on the secret. Ranking your site on the first page has never been this easy.
While the Google search engine is very popular, Dragtotop brings all of what Google has and allows the users to simply Drag any site to the top and create their own search results. Search Dragtotop as you would search Google. When you find a result you like, just Drag It to the central column. Dragtotop has three columns, the first column on the left is search results from Google ; the second column shows user generated Drags and the third column is ads. Let's assume you searched for Car Dealers. The results are pulled from Google.com. If you like a search result on the third page, Simply Drag that site to the central column and next time someone searches for Car Dealers, the search result you dragged will show at the top of the second column, while the regular search results from Google will show in the first column. Your Drag will move down the list only when others drag new results on the exact same keywords.
www.dragtotop.com
