Personalized search

RedEyedAbyss

What good could possibly come out of this? All I see is a system that steals your data for advertiser money and prevents you from being exposed to different ideas (especially since we already have enough issues with confirmation bias searching).

I remember when I took "Don't Be Evil" at face value and not as an Orwellian slogan.

Kraken

Some people don't want new ideas.

fourteenwings

I like that you can look up how sad and lonely your life is based on what Google thinks of you, but it is kind of dangerous to encourage narrow scopes and echo-chambers.

I remember when I took "Don't Be Evil" at face value and not as an Orwellian slogan.

There was actually a novel with a great premise about a social network company that was trying to take over the world, sadly the book sucked (Or maybe it didn't since I only read the first chapter at work).

Nyktos

There are certainly problems with it, but the intended upside seems pretty obvious to me: a programmer and a herpetologist are going to be looking for very different things when they search "python", for example.

glennmagusharvey

Well, conversely, a silver lining of non-personalized search in ^that case is that it reminds people of the need to disambiguate jargon when speaking to a larger audience.

RedEyedAbyss

@fourteenwings: After I saw the ad preferences page, I was motivated to change my cookie settings to flush them out after every session.

DYRE

Google thinks I'm a 50 year old dad who drives a Chevrolet for some reason.

InsanityAddict

It only displays unknowns for me. Perhaps I adblock everything?