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> Why is x 73rd on Google search ranking? It's unlikely that a human would be able to produce the exact same ordering, for any possible search term for all the
by will4274 9y ago
> Why is x 73rd on Google search ranking?
It's unlikely that a human would be able to produce the exact same ordering, for any possible search term for all the pages and pages of results that Google shows.
- dannyw 9y agoSince when are search results personal data?
- manfredo 9y agoThey are affected by personal data. E.g. if you performed a search, and your friend next to you performed the same search and got different results there is probably no way Google could give a concise or exact explanation as to why your results were different.
- will4274 9y agoI would guess personalized search results went mainstream on 2005 or so, as Google became popular, but perhaps some of the portals Google replaced (ask Jeeves and Yahoo) had personalized results before that