Google Introduces Personalized, Starred Results, Because You Know What You Like

Today Google added a new star feature to its search engine that allows users to mark their favorite sites, so they'll show up right at the top even if they're not the most popular.

Stars are essentially replacing SearchWiki, a tool that pretty much nobody liked--it also let you personalize search results by reordering, removing, or adding links, but it actually replaced Google's usual search results with your altered ones. That system would sometimes result in lousy search results, because...