googlesystem.blogspot.com— Google has created a new module for the personalized homepage that shows you recommendations, based on your search history, your location and on the search history of similar users.
Sep 9, 2006View in Crawl 4
OK, everyone...now be honest. In the history of the internet, there have been hundreds of sites that have recommedned something for you based on your history. Searches, online purchases, etc. Has ANYONE ever really liked one of the recommeded sites or products?Oh, I see. It's Google.
While the normal Search History shows pretty much the same thing, adding it to the homepage is a decent improvement. Rarely do I look through my Search History, unless I'm searching for a site that I forgot to bookmark, print, etc. I certainly know I'll be playing around with it a bit more now that it's in plain sight on the front page.
+1 inaccurate. This module isn't by Google, it's simply a Google module written by some random developer. After installing it it had no data; it said I had to do two or three days of searches before it started working meaning it doesn't have access to the data Google has already collected on me.Make your own assumptions.
They track you by placing cookies on your computer. It helps the site remember where you have been before thus they are able to customize for your "preferences." Sometimes it is nice, but they take up so much room on my computer that I usually delete them. Only the server that placed the cookies on your computer can read them. However, there are networks now where companies have come together and agreed to read each others' cookies. I think that is mostly for advertising though.
Update: Yahoo and almost all other search engines will do it. but google will no longer. kindof annoying. anybody know a FF extension that will let you highlite a URL and goto it? perhaps in another tab? or just at all?
Closed AccountSep 10, 2006
OK, everyone...now be honest. In the history of the internet, there have been hundreds of sites that have recommedned something for you based on your history. Searches, online purchases, etc. Has ANYONE ever really liked one of the recommeded sites or products?Oh, I see. It's Google.
necrazSep 10, 2006
While the normal Search History shows pretty much the same thing, adding it to the homepage is a decent improvement. Rarely do I look through my Search History, unless I'm searching for a site that I forgot to bookmark, print, etc. I certainly know I'll be playing around with it a bit more now that it's in plain sight on the front page.
trunkmonkeySep 10, 2006
+1 inaccurate. This module isn't by Google, it's simply a Google module written by some random developer. After installing it it had no data; it said I had to do two or three days of searches before it started working meaning it doesn't have access to the data Google has already collected on me.Make your own assumptions.
geezusfreeekSep 10, 2006
Why are these getting dugg down?
sugar1210Sep 10, 2006
They track you by placing cookies on your computer. It helps the site remember where you have been before thus they are able to customize for your "preferences." Sometimes it is nice, but they take up so much room on my computer that I usually delete them. Only the server that placed the cookies on your computer can read them. However, there are networks now where companies have come together and agreed to read each others' cookies. I think that is mostly for advertising though.
inversegenSep 10, 2006
hmm interesting though slightly worrying that they'll shove ad's at you...
mrzopSep 10, 2006
Update: Yahoo and almost all other search engines will do it. but google will no longer. kindof annoying. anybody know a FF extension that will let you highlite a URL and goto it? perhaps in another tab? or just at all?