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I don't think this is true unless you are truly locked into your own tiny little world. All your search history really does is help Google serve up ads for you.
by rsl7 13y ago
I don't think this is true unless you are truly locked into your own tiny little world. All your search history really does is help Google serve up ads for you. If that's an improvement, so be it.
- jkrems 13y agoMany programming language related terms, movie titles, cities/postal codes, ... All those things can be judged better when the search engine has prior knowledge about you. You don't have to be "truly locked into your own tiny little world" to have previous search be a valuable predictor of what kind of results you expect.
- chipotle_coyote 13y agoGoogle keeps track of what sources you're more frequently clicking on and weights results subtly but noticeably. If you look up things on Wikipedia a lot, Wikipedia pages will be ranked higher. If you're more likely to click over to the BBC than to Fox when you read a news source, the BBC will be higher and Fox will be lower.