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Come and join Google's experts.
Byline: Mark Chillingworth
Come and join Google's experts
' site review
Google has taken the ethos behind Wikipedia -- that anyone can contribute to improve online information -- and combined it with its impressive search technology. The result, Google Co-op, currently at beta stage, shows how individual input can improve even Google.
Co-op enables experts to create a search topic area they are highly knowledgeable about. A topic area is basically a set of predefined content providers that experts would like to share with web searchers -- a bit like a library.
At the head of each topic area is a tag cloud featuring terms associated with the subject area that will help users refine their search. For example, under "heart attack", there are cloud links to terms such as treatments, symptoms, diagnosis and health professionals.
With Co-op, Google has accepted it cannot provide the sole answer to information enquiries and has invited experts to contribute to improving information access for everyone. The current Co-op channels offer a mix of consumer and professional, ...
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