[freekitty]

Well, that’s classifying you and shutting you down.

[Psycho_Bunny]

“Google now searches your world”

If I’m having to go to Google and search for something, it’s because what I’m searching for isn’t already an aspect of “my world”.

[ConorMacNessa]

I find this disturbing. I've got enough people peering into my affairs as it is - this is just another small step down the road to a total loss of privacy rights.

Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

[Interesting Times]

Starting Tuesday, Google will pluck only the results most relevant to you...

Not Google's call. Starting Tuesday, I'll be switching my search engine to Bing.

[sanjuanbob]

So this is why when I googled “Romney, Bain”, the whole page came back with pictures of topless women.

[Anima Mundi]

Seems like this doesn’t embrace diversity of opinion or widening one’s scope of what to consider. We already know what we know and it is the things that surprise that lead to a new pattern of understanding the bigger picture.

[Kirkwood]

This is only in Google+.

[dennisw]

Let’s say I am signed into google on FireFox
If I am using Chrome and am not signed into google on Chrome......Can I avoid this crap?

[Sherman Logan]

Not a bad idea. But you ought to be able to opt out and get the “generic search” when you want to.

[SharpRightTurn]

Use www.startpage.com

[LibertyRocks]

I already KNOW what’s going on in “my world” - I use a search engine to find out what’s happening OUTSIDE my little nook in the world. Also, it’s very interesting that they will only show results dependent upon what you and your “friends” look at?

Sounds like a form of censorship in some ways - if the majority of my friends are conservative does that mean that they won’t give me a search result on a progressive site?

SO, here’s what I’m left with — what is a viable option for TRUE in-depth search of the web? I’ve used others in the past, but don’t know how many are still around???

[sam_paine]

Have Google, but use a prohylactic like this:

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

[EBH]

This sucks...

I use yahoo, bing, and then if I am still not getting the results I want...google.

They are trying to control information...wasn’t somebody talking about making sure you own things like “books,” for the future because the web wasn’t going to be the place to find information anymore?....Oh yeah...it was that crazy guy Glenn Beck....

[Spunky]

"Google now searches your world, not just the Web..."

YIKES! So when I Google all I am going to get is this?

This is my world. Being on FreeRepublic.

[T.O.K.]

I don’t like this at all! They always have to push a good thing too far!

[bolobaby]

Folks - they are already doing this.

Try this simple test: google a topic like Romney on YOUR computer. Look at your top 20 results. Now go to a peer on THEIR computer and google the same exact search term. It is highly likely that you will NOT see the same results.

Google has long provided matches that *IT* thinks are relevant to you.

[goodnesswins]

When will they come clean my toilets? friends
dont let friends use google...altho it is getting hard to avoid

[mkjessup]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_%28anonymity_network%29

[starlifter]

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

[RnMomof7]

Time to change search engines