Re:Over one billion searches were made on DuckDuckGo in 2013
by summerdown2 on Saturday January 11, 2014 @03:51PM
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I don't think it makes you a bad person ;)
... but I don't agree with your point of view. Personalised results are obviously better for Google because they're an advertising company. But they're not necessarily better for users, particularly the HN crowd. Beyond a certain level of computer savvy, I suspect the user prefers to have control of the output via keywords and regex, rather than have an algorithm decide for them, no matter how smart that algorithm is.
I just thought personalized results are better for users. Does that make me a bad person?
PS: I work at Google though not in search.