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The author believes that users have little incentive to allow Google to provide personalized Google Search results. I don't think any technical-oriented people
by Sephr 9y ago
The author believes that users have little incentive to allow Google to provide personalized Google Search results.
I don't think any technical-oriented people in this thread would agree that they have "little incentive" to allow Google Search personalization. When I turn off Google Search personalization, I get inferior search results that are less likely to be what I was searching for.
If you don't want your results personalized, there is an option in the search results to turn personalization off.
The problem I have with this law is that Google will need to default to non-personalized results and then prompt users if they want personalization. Google probably doesn't want to increase UI friction, so they will most likely just disable personalization and not prompt to enable. This will result in less-engaged users and inferior search results for the average EU citizen.
- balls187 9y ago> I don't think any technical-oriented people in this thread would agree that they have "little incentive" to allow Google Search personalization. I disagree. I turned off Search personalization a long time ago, and haven't looked back.
- Jordrok 9y agoSame here. I do most of my browsing in an incognito mode-like environment (so no persistent cookies or sign in to my Google account), and even when I am signed in I turned off the search history a long time ago.
- Nala_Alan 9y agoI don't even use Google, I use my own searx instance instead. Completely unpersonalized, and completely private. And I feel that it's better this way, cause privacy does matter.
- austinheap 9y agoI just use my old Britannica CDs. Completely private.
- michalskop 9y agoUsing DuckDuckGo is fine for let say 98% of my searches (most of them probably IT related). For the rest, I go to Google or Bing or others. Is there Britannica on flash drives? I should add it to those 2%.
- goodplay 9y agoWikipedia can be downloaded in its entirety in an easy to use package. For STEM articles, it's better than Britannica (and cheaper too).
- flukus 9y agoThe personalization is what made me switch to DDG. Google shows me too many results of what I searched for yesterday or the results of that similar search I just made. The more google tries to show results for what I think it's searching for instead of what I type into the search box the worse it gets for me. DDG might sometimes show me some rust proofing results when I'm search for programming related things, but it least it doesn't ignore my refined searches.