Google rolled out a new tool that allows users to personalize their search results. The SearchWiki tools are designed to let anyone logged into Google accounts re-arrange, re-rank, and edit the results. This means users can actually move the results to a higher position, delete results that aren’t useful, and add notes to them as well.

Marissa Mayer, the vice president of search products and user experience for Google, says the tools are especially valuable for users when they conduct repeated searches. For instance, someone who often searches for reference materials could easily eliminate the results that are not helpful instead of having to sort through them each time.

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