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Sorry, meant to say depersonalize. Care to expand why this doesn't work? Just ran the same test, and I see the exact same results.
by achille 14y ago
Sorry, meant to say depersonalize. Care to expand why this doesn't work? Just ran the same test, and I see the exact same results.
- epi0Bauqu 14y agoYes, what you said sounds plausible and is indeed intuitive, but we've found it empirically to be untrue. In fact, on fresh private mode browsing (cookies cleared) when people searched for the same result at the same time, we still saw significant variation in results, even in the same country and on non-location results.
- moultano 14y agoThis may have nothing to do with personalization. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/search-evaluation-at-google.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/search-evaluation-at-... "We also make use of experiments, in which small fractions of queries are shown results from alternative search approaches." Many small experiments can lead to differences for a reasonably large fraction of queries.