A year ago, Google unveiled an experimental feature that enables users to edit their search results. Now, it looks like Google is finally rolling out the feature with a new name: SearchWiki.

SearchWiki gives users the ability to move search results up if they are more relevant, hide results they don't like, and even suggest their own. Two boxes -- an up arrow and an X -- appear next to search results, letting searchers either promote or banish the results. SearchWiki is not available to all Google users yet, but Search Engine Land has a video of the new feature in action.

Google already controls the lion's share of the U.S. search market, and the new social search tool appears to be a cross between the voting system of Digg and the human-powered search engine Mahalo, which lets users build their search result pages.

In other Google news, the search giant settled a copyright lawsuit with the Association of American Publishers and the Author's Guild concerning Google's practice of scanning books for its Google Book Search. Under the lawsuit, Google will pay $125 million, part of which will set up a "Book Rights Registry" to ensure payment to authors.