Comments on: Getting Personal | A Quick Look At Personalized Search http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/getting-personal-a-quick-look-at-personalized-search/ 805-827-2450 We offer complete social media website design, marketing systems, agency services and video production. Grow your busienss and your web presence with Viral Video and RSS Feeds Syndication Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:55:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Israeli Rothman http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/getting-personal-a-quick-look-at-personalized-search/#comment-390 Israeli Rothman Sun, 17 Jun 2007 16:11:29 +0000 http://socialmediasystems.com/06/14/getting-personal-a-quick-look-at-personalized-search/#comment-390 You can pause your web history indefinately, avoiding personalized search altogether, which is what I do: from Google help: Can I "pause" my web history? Yes. If you're visiting a web page or performing a search which you don't want stored in your web history, just click the "Web History" link from the Google Accounts page, then click the "Pause" link on the left side of the Web History page. Once you click "Pause," your web activity won't be kept in Web History or used to personalize your search results until you click "Resume." If you'd like to sign out of Web History altogether, click the "Sign out" link at the top of the Google homepage. Note that you'll need to sign back in to your Google Account to have Web History begin storing your web activity again. You can pause your web history indefinately, avoiding personalized search altogether, which is what I do: from Google help:

Can I “pause” my web history?

Yes. If you’re visiting a web page or performing a search which you don’t want stored in your web history, just click the “Web History” link from the Google Accounts page, then click the “Pause” link on the left side of the Web History page. Once you click “Pause,” your web activity won’t be kept in Web History or used to personalize your search results until you click “Resume.”

If you’d like to sign out of Web History altogether, click the “Sign out” link at the top of the Google homepage. Note that you’ll need to sign back in to your Google Account to have Web History begin storing your web activity again.

]]> By: Feeds and The Changes in Submitting Your Web Site to the Search Engines http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/getting-personal-a-quick-look-at-personalized-search/#comment-391 Feeds and The Changes in Submitting Your Web Site to the Search Engines Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:16:52 +0000 http://socialmediasystems.com/06/14/getting-personal-a-quick-look-at-personalized-search/#comment-391 [...] Some searches for broad real estate, travel, auto and others are fed goegraphically targeted ads through personalized search technology (see related post: http://socialmediasystems.com/06/14/getting-personal-a-quick-look-at-personalized-search/ ) [...] [...] Some searches for broad real estate, travel, auto and others are fed goegraphically targeted ads through personalized search technology (see related post: http://socialmediasystems.com/06/14/getting-personal-a-quick-look-at-personalized-search/ ) [...]

]]> By: Israeli Rothman http://socialmediasystems.com/blog/getting-personal-a-quick-look-at-personalized-search/#comment-392 Israeli Rothman Thu, 14 Jun 2007 13:07:27 +0000 http://socialmediasystems.com/06/14/getting-personal-a-quick-look-at-personalized-search/#comment-392 Another consideration is that of control; who is in control of what you see: is it you, or is it the search engine? With personalized search, it could be the search engine, they could skew results, feed ads, which is exactly what they want to do. With universal search, you are in control, seeing the same results as anybody else, deciding yourself what to click on, what to look at. I think personalized search is a pain in the ass: but I am 53 years old, and it takes time for me to adjust my thinking about such things ;-) Another consideration is that of control; who is in control of what you see: is it you, or is it the search engine? With personalized search, it could be the search engine, they could skew results, feed ads, which is exactly what they want to do. With universal search, you are in control, seeing the same results as anybody else, deciding yourself what to click on, what to look at. I think personalized search is a pain in the ass: but I am 53 years old, and it takes time for me to adjust my thinking about such things ;-)

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