other people's removals won't affect your searches; only theirs. So if you search for something and some of the results are irrelevant to you, remove them and next time you search for the thing, they won't appear. Same thing with promotions.

Oh. Huh.

I guess I'm more of a one-time Googler than a gotta-Google-this-every-week kind of person.

I hate things like this. If I want to revisit a site I bookmark it. I'm not going to remove a result -- what if I need it for a different search another time?

I hope it is an option I can turn off if I wish.

You can just log out of your Google account and get your Google straight up.

other people's removals won't affect your searches; only theirs. So if you search for something and some of the results are irrelevant to you, remove them and next time you search for the thing, they won't appear. Same thing with promotions.

Don't be so sure.

I must be the sort of user this is targeted to - I work on multiple computers throughout the day, so I don't really store bookmarks. I hate typing in the wrong URL, so I usually use the google search toolbar and trust google to correct the domain name if I spell it wrong. But then, I don't stay logged in to my google account and I wouldn't remove results unless they were egregiously annoying.

I saw this the other day. I wondered if it were meant to let the google community help get rid of all the spammy commercial links that clutter so many searches. It'd be nice if something could be done along those lines.

Actually, I think it's meant to placate people who complain about such links by giving them something that does something about them -- for those people. It doesn't seem particularly useful and apparently the comments feature is already being used for spam.