On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 03:49:09PM +0000, Curt wrote: > On 2014-11-19, Renaud OLGIATI <ren...@olgiati-in-paraguay.org> wrote: > > > >> The claim is your Google search history affects your Google search > >> results. > > > > Seems Google tailors your results depending on what you look at; > > frinstance if they see that you often go to the Wikipedia article on > > the query subject, they will put wikipedia higher in your results. > > > > The link posted by Darac (http://dontbubble.us/) claims that Google results > are tailored *based on your search history*. > > I don't have a search history. I had no cookies, either, when I made the > search. Nor was I logged in to their services. > > So I don't see how Google could have tailored my results.
Do you regularly search from the same IP address? Do you regularly search from the same browser? Do you regularly search from the same country? Because Google don't publish their search algorithm, it's impossible to tell how they tailor their results for "anonymous" users. It's not beyond the realms of possibility (nor beyond Google's resources) to tailor results based on a number of factors. "Firefox users prefer github", "Internet Explorer users are generally conservative", "Chinese users should not be shown 'unacceptable' ideas" are all customisations that Google *COULD* implement, all with the goal of getting the best click-through statistics. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/slrnm6pevl.2am.cu...@einstein.electron.org >
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