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Looks like DDG has led the way on some of this: Don't bubble: "We’re also introducing a prominent new toggle on the upper right of the results page where you

by ximeng 15y ago

Looks like DDG has led the way on some of this: Don't bubble: "We’re also introducing a prominent new toggle on the upper right of the results page where you can see what your search results look like without personal content. With a single click, you can see an unpersonalized view of search results." Default SSL: "That's part of why we were the first major search engine to turn on search via SSL by default for signed-in users last year."

Fizzer 15y ago
I don't get why they would put a toggle in the upper-right to do this. They already have search categories in the top-left. In their screenshots, they're on the "Web" tab. Why not just add a new tab representing generic search, make that the default, and leave the web search as it is today? Making the "Web search" also search your personal data, then giving you an option to make the "Web search" do a non-personalized search just seems backwards to me.
- sp332 15y ago
  You'd have to double the number of tabs. One each for "Web", "Web Generic", "Video", "Video Generic", "News", "News Generic" etc. etc.
tonfa 15y ago
Contrary to DDG, it is really personal content (not ranking) here (i.e. content that might be accessible only to you). I think the ranking is still personalized when you disable Search+.
- ximeng 15y ago
  They say "no personalization of results based on your Web History", which sounds like this affects ranking.
  - tonfa 15y ago
    On the help, they say: "On any given search, you can toggle to hide personal results", which is ambiguous.
    - ximeng 15y ago
      http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2410479 http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... "If you turn off personal results and stay signed in to your Google Account, you won't see results personalized based on your Google+ circles (or suggested connections), Google products, or your search history. If you turn off personal results and sign out of your Google Account, you may still see personalized results and results based on the context of your search."
- SquareWheel 15y ago
  You can turn off personalization by appending &pws=0 to the URL. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-disable-google-personalized.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-disable-goog...

by ximeng 15y ago

Fizzer 15y ago

I don't get why they would put a toggle in the upper-right to do this. They already have search categories in the top-left. In their screenshots, they're on the "Web" tab. Why not just add a new tab representing generic search, make that the default, and leave the web search as it is today? Making the "Web search" also search your personal data, then giving you an option to make the "Web search" do a non-personalized search just seems backwards to me.

sp332 15y ago
You'd have to double the number of tabs. One each for "Web", "Web Generic", "Video", "Video Generic", "News", "News Generic" etc. etc.

tonfa 15y ago

Contrary to DDG, it is really personal content (not ranking) here (i.e. content that might be accessible only to you). I think the ranking is still personalized when you disable Search+.

ximeng 15y ago
They say "no personalization of results based on your Web History", which sounds like this affects ranking.
- tonfa 15y ago
  On the help, they say: "On any given search, you can toggle to hide personal results", which is ambiguous.
  - ximeng 15y ago
    http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2410479 http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... "If you turn off personal results and stay signed in to your Google Account, you won't see results personalized based on your Google+ circles (or suggested connections), Google products, or your search history. If you turn off personal results and sign out of your Google Account, you may still see personalized results and results based on the context of your search."
SquareWheel 15y ago
You can turn off personalization by appending &pws=0 to the URL. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-disable-google-personalized.html http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-disable-goog...