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It does reduce your view of what's out there to some extent, giving seemingly undue bias to certain services or opinions.
by ukandy 12y ago
It does reduce your view of what's out there to some extent, giving seemingly undue bias to certain services or opinions.
- on_and_off 12y agoGoogle does indeed use my data in order to personalize search results. I remember being impressed to see that for a query that could have several different meanings, the search engine gave me results centered on my engineering field, which was what I was looking for. I am not that convinced that it blindfolds you to some services or opinions though. So far I have only seen differences in understanding the context of the query, which I don't see as an 'undue bias' but an added value (especially if you read the anecdote about the 'history of aviation' query in this thread). Some other thoughts on the bubble : http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/the-preference-bubble http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/the-preference-bubble .