Google has been testing an interesting new feature which lets users vote search results up or down. It’s a part of Google’s experimental program, and it’s not known when or whether it will ever be implemented in actual Google search results.

This is not a new idea. A search engine called AfterVote (previously called Younanimous) has had this feature for several months, as well as some other interesting ones, like bookmarking, prioritizing, or blocking certain results altogether. It’s a meta search engine, which means that it combines results from Google, Yahoo and Live search; unfortunately, this also means that Google can simply add their ideas to their products and cut them out of the loop. It would be a pity, because AfterVote is one of the most interesting alternative search engines around. Check out a screenshot below:

Google’s new feature is actually quite primitive: vote up, vote down, or suggest an alternative. The screenshot from the official site explains it well:

[via Parislemon]