Google personalizes search results even when you’re logged out, new study finds

Re:Google personalizes search results even when you’re logge... by godelski on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @01:38PM (#18602291)

I've observed that too. Then force the words to be there with quotes, finding that I still get plenty of resume. Which seems weird to me, because most people don't travel to the second page. I'd rather have an exact result than more pages.

But then again, it doesn't seem like a simple problem and one that has companies in either way.

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Re:Google personalizes search results even when you’re logge... by Wowfunhappy on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @03:21PM (#18603275)

I suspect this is one of those features that helps the less technically inclined majority, while hearting those who know what they're doing. I can see the average Googler including words that aren't actually relevant to their query.

As long as I can force it with quotes, I'm happy. Google has even started suggesting next to the results "include only results with the word XXX", to remind me the quotes might be needed.

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Re:Google personalizes search results even when you’re logge... by baroffoos on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:05PM (#18604332)

I have noticed this too. I tend to include all the key words and the problem domain in my search and get bad results on google and then other people just type a whole sentience exactly like you would say it to a human and get back good results.

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