Script Summary: Help test a theory about making google searches better. Install this script to participate in the study.
NOTE: The companion script to this one (that displays the project's results in your Google results) can be found here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/64039
The script allows you to help test the validity of the theory that "the last search result you click on was the best result".
Installing this script will allow you to participate the study.
How many times have you 'dug' through search results to find the one search result that you really wanted? Once you found that result, don't you wish that what you found would've been the first one on Google's search results page? Google works great for easy searches like "greasemonkey", but for more direct searches where you're searching for a fix to a problem and have to dig through hundreds of forum posts like "mysql replication error 237 ...", this script will remember the 'last' hit that users clicks on and aggregates all of the user data and will compile a 'better first result' and insert the most popular 'last hit' result on google's results page.
Discussion (usenet newsgroup) can be found here: news://badcheese.com/lastsearch.general
Newer versions of this script will insert a new "best result" into google search results based on the consensus of most popular 'last hits'. The initial version of the script is just collecting search data.
NOTE: this script collects google search terms but does not collect any personal data.
CHANGES:
2008/08/28 V 1.3: Fixed quotes issues
2008/12/16 V 1.4: Fixed queries with a dash (-) in them
