Google gets personal, searches your world, not just the Web

LA Times ^ | January 10, 2012 | Jessica Guynn

[opentalk]

For Google, it's personal. The Internet search giant is no longer going to roll out the same search results to everyone.

Starting Tuesday, Google will pluck only the results most relevant to you --and not just from billions of Web pages but from the personal stuff that you and your connections privately share.

The idea, says Google Fellow Amit Singhal, is that Google now searches your world, not just the Web, and serves up results that combine both for your eyes only.

"Your world was missing from search until now," he said. "We are bringing your world into search."

[freekitty]

Thanks

[sanjuanbob]

I use Ixquick on Firefox. Check it out.

[starlifter]

If you aren't paying for the service, then you are the product the service is selling.

[Bigg Red]

I use Bing. Please don’t tell me Google owns it, too.

[Uncle Ike]

” use Bing. Please don’t tell me Google owns it, too. “

I use Bing, too - Microsoft owns it, so even if they’re trying to play tracking tricks, MS is so inept that they’re bound to screw it up.... ;)

[Palladin]

Thanks for the link!

I checked it out, and I like it, I like it!

[Col Freeper]

Take a look at:

https://www.ixquick.com/

[Bigg Red]

I use Bing, too - Microsoft owns it, so even if they’re trying to play tracking tricks, MS is so inept that they’re bound to screw it up.... ;)

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[MamaDearest]

Scroogle is fantastic. I've been using it for quite some time. Also great (no tracking) are Ixquick and DuckDuckGo. Bing gives pretty pictures, but tracks us.

Link to DuckDuckGo

Link to Ixquick

[ArmstedFragg]

Imagine the spouse who goes shopping for footware and gets a page of her hubbie’s foot fetish sites. Should make for some interesting dinner conversations.

[RnMomof7]

Time to change search engines

[rightly_dividing]

I use startpage also and I am happy with it. I quit Google years ago when I found out how liberal they are.