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Google's feed does an amazing job of avoiding filter bubble. One of the best in the industry actually. I use the product and wrote a blogpost about it: https://

Google's feed does an amazing job of avoiding filter bubble. One of the best in the industry actually. I use the product and wrote a blogpost about it: https://getstream.io/blog/google-feed-personalization-and-recommender-systems/ https://getstream.io/blog/google-feed-personalization-and-re... It makes total sense for them to personalize search results. If I am searching for Django it's the framework not the musician. When I search for a restaurant name it's the one in Boulder, Co, not a restaurant by the same name on a different continent. People always adjust their messaging according to who they are talking to. It's kinda weird how it's creeping people out when computers do this.

PavlovsCat 8y ago
It's not creeping me out, it's disgusting me. When I want to look for django reinhardt, I can look for "django music" or whatever, if I want the framework "django web framework" should do the trick. Oh, and and when I add a + before I word I want that word to show up, if there are no results with that word, show me no results. I'm fine with others having the option of personalized search, I'm not fine with me not having it.
- krrrh 8y ago
  Just in case you aren’t aware, google deprecated the + operator years ago. If you want to ensure a single word is in your results you can put quotation marks around it. It mostly works.
  - PavlovsCat 8y ago
    Oh.. I tried it out and it worked perfectly, thank you very much! I'll gladly take the egg on my face in exchange for learning this :D
  - PavlovsCat 8y ago
    Wait, why are you downvoted? I wasn't aware, and you helped me greatly. I wish HN would offer a way to just order comments by date and make flagged/downvoted things collapsed, the end. People playing political tug of war with comments in conversations they don't even partake in is just annyoing. Karma-free HN could be a browser extension. We could call it nirvana or something.
- Zarel 8y ago
  Apparently it's not hard to turn off search personalization: https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols/search https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols/search This will turn off all localization except language, location, and device type (mobile vs desktop). Google doesn't have a way to turn off localization - obviously, it'll display different results for "football" in the US than in the rest of the world, and neither result is the "official" one. If you need to change language, that's easy, it's just in search settings. If you need to change location or device type, that's harder. You can either use Chrome's dev tools, or a tool like http://www.isearchfrom.com/ http://www.isearchfrom.com/
Wowfunhappy 8y ago
I worry it ropes me into my domain and way of thinking, without a way of getting out of it. I also would likely mean the web framework, but if I suddenly become interested in Django music one day, I don't want Google to make assumptions.

PavlovsCat 8y ago

It's not creeping me out, it's disgusting me. When I want to look for django reinhardt, I can look for "django music" or whatever, if I want the framework "django web framework" should do the trick. Oh, and and when I add a + before I word I want that word to show up, if there are no results with that word, show me no results. I'm fine with others having the option of personalized search, I'm not fine with me not having it.

krrrh 8y ago
Just in case you aren’t aware, google deprecated the + operator years ago. If you want to ensure a single word is in your results you can put quotation marks around it. It mostly works.
- PavlovsCat 8y ago
  Oh.. I tried it out and it worked perfectly, thank you very much! I'll gladly take the egg on my face in exchange for learning this :D
- PavlovsCat 8y ago
  Wait, why are you downvoted? I wasn't aware, and you helped me greatly. I wish HN would offer a way to just order comments by date and make flagged/downvoted things collapsed, the end. People playing political tug of war with comments in conversations they don't even partake in is just annyoing. Karma-free HN could be a browser extension. We could call it nirvana or something.
Zarel 8y ago
Apparently it's not hard to turn off search personalization: https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols/search https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols/search This will turn off all localization except language, location, and device type (mobile vs desktop). Google doesn't have a way to turn off localization - obviously, it'll display different results for "football" in the US than in the rest of the world, and neither result is the "official" one. If you need to change language, that's easy, it's just in search settings. If you need to change location or device type, that's harder. You can either use Chrome's dev tools, or a tool like http://www.isearchfrom.com/ http://www.isearchfrom.com/

Wowfunhappy 8y ago

I worry it ropes me into my domain and way of thinking, without a way of getting out of it. I also would likely mean the web framework, but if I suddenly become interested in Django music one day, I don't want Google to make assumptions.