Is readwriteweb.com Safe?

Late last week Google unveiled the first major change to its search interface since the introduction of multi-media ("Universal") results into the search results page. They called it Google SearchWiki. It's a big deal, it's awkward, it's frightening, it's brave, it's already both loved and hated - but it's not a wiki. As Ward Cunningham, the man who invented wikis, told us in our initial coverage of SearchWiki, "Collectively editing thoughts is what leads to the unique wiki behavior..." Days into the experiment it's clear that this feature is more like a forum, and it's not a particularly well architected one at that. We wonder why Google would choose to call this feature a wiki when it's pretty evident that's not what it is. You can't edit anyone's text in SearchWiki. You can't collaborate intentionally - perhaps in effect users are collaborating by voting search results up and down, but that's hardly the kind of collaborative behavior that every other wiki in the world makes possible. There's no way to reach consensus, or stasis, in SearchWiki. You can't see the past history of anyone who contributes. Documents don't change, they just get bigger. There's no discussion of the "wiki" document, just the document itself.