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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by enriquto on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:36AM (#23610245)
This google "feature" is really annoying. I have a private firefox window cookies specific for google searches to mitigate this effect. Yet it is still there.

While the visualizations are cool, I'm a bit afraid of how much of the displayed word cloud is a visualization of the "bubble" that the author lives in. It would be cool to see how different these graphs are on each of our computers!

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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by foreigner on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:00AM (#23610377)
Google has a URL parameter to turn the personal search feature off.
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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by enriquto on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @02:10AM (#23610427)
Sure, but it does not really work. It still tries to infer your search "preferences" from your IP, and whatnot.
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Re:Ego Graphs – the Google ‘vs’ trick by mikkom on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @08:06AM (#23612779)
And there is a reason why the bubble is still there even in private browsing..

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/m7jvvp/google-sued-tracki...

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