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Re:You Will Not Understand This by cyphunk on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @10:05AM (#15653067)
you imply that when someone that is not a programmer, and say works in the rare stones industry, goes to google to search for ruby gems, that they are not shown a bunch of programmer garbage?
Re:You Will Not Understand This by pawelk on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:47AM (#15654122)
Personalized disambiguation can be really handy. I'm a hobby woodworker, I've recently bought a vintage Record #4 hand plane and wanted to learn more about it. I found out this model was manufactured in 1939-1945.

So without thinking I type record plane 1939-1945 into Google. And guess what? I get information about hand planes, pictures of hand planes in the images section, links to ebay auctions for vintage planes etc, and in between these there were only a few results related to aircraft combat during WWII.

The same query in incognito mode doesn't return even a single link related to hand tools.

Re:You Will Not Understand This by michaelbuckbee on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @11:46AM (#15654115)
I'm implying that Google "learns" over time that I'm more interested in ruby the programming language and that a jeweler would over time get more gemstone related resources.