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That's not necessarily true. They could use a classifier to figure out the subject of the query (e.g. programming, cooking, travel) and then modify the query se
by TheCoreh 8y ago
That's not necessarily true. They could use a classifier to figure out the subject of the query (e.g. programming, cooking, travel) and then modify the query sent to Bing or whatever backend they use. Bonus points if they actually expose this on the UI, in a way that allows you to remove the personalization
"array reverse [JavaScript x]"
"camping sites [Near Lake Tahoe x]"
- greglindahl 8y agoThat's what blekko did with slashtags, and you have to have your own index to do a good job of evaluating those queries.
- mcintyre1994 8y agoThey already do something like this because if you search "array reverse" or any programming question then you get a Q/A tab with stackoverflow almost always at the top.
- utopcell 8y agoThat's not personalization, that's query classification. Of course Bing already does this. What is the personal, private information they could be monitoring for, that would allow them to rewrite better than Bing ?
- TheCoreh 8y agoThey wouldn't be monitoring. You'd explicitly tell them what personalizations you want, and that would be stored in your machine via a cookie that you can delete at will (just like the color scheme/font) It could either be a power user setting hidden away (like color scheme currently is), or it could be exposed on the SERP interface via a prompt: "Set JavaScript as your default programming language?" "Set vegan as your default diet?" etc