Archive for December 22nd, 2005

December 22

Google Personalized Search

Posted by Elliot
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Google is offering something very similar to a social networking service with its new Personalized Search feature. It’s similar to del.icio.us:
“Create bookmarks you can access anywhereBookmark your favorite websites and add labels and notes to them. Your labels and notes are searchable later, and you can access your bookmarks from any computer by signing in.”
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December 22

Official Google Blog: Setting trends

Posted by Elliot
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It’s interesting to see where personalization and history can take us. Is this an invasion of privacy? Remember that your search queries are always recorded and monitored. That information can be useful and dangerous. But harnessing its usefulness has been a challenge… until now.
Yu Chen, a Software Engineer at Google, says: “… today we launched […]