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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by nsns on Thursday March 22, 2012 @03:43PM (#3741547)
As I've said before, there are searches for consumption needs, and a completely different kind of search made for research needs. No popular search engine today differentiates between the two, but Goggle is slowly moving towards a search dedicated to consumption needs, which seems logical for an advertizing company.

I might search for pizza in order to find a place to order it from. Or I might become curious, and search for pizza to learn about its origins and history. A personalized search would only answer the first option.

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Re:Paul Graham, the Commons, and How Google Stopped Being Go... by yew on Thursday March 22, 2012 @03:48PM (#3741574)
Personalized searches also render it difficult to gauge how 'pizza' relates to other data in the public (sub)conscious. Google results used to (and still do, to a certain extent) provide a very good picture of the semantic structure of the Internet, if you knew how to read them.
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