Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'personalization'

A WebmasterWorld thread has discussion around Google now telling you how the search results were either customized based on your previous searches or personalized based on your web history. This is not all that new, relative to search, Danny wrote...

Posted on October 17, 2008 6:23 AM

A WebmasterWorld member points out that Google has been a little more open with regards to personalized search results. For example, when you do a search, you might see something like this, where Google says that these are searches based...

Posted on August 11, 2008 9:17 AM

At Search Engine Land, Danny Sullivan discusses how search 4.0 will integrate human elements and that editorial decisions will help keep the freshness and relevancy of results. (In case you were wondering, search 1.0 from '96 used on-the-page criteria, search...

Posted on May 29, 2008 10:14 AM

Mike Grehan wrote an article on the future of SEO and shared his thoughts on Search Engine Watch Forums. Perhaps most importantly, Mike talks about the personalization of search among different verticals and how social search will have a predominant...

Posted on May 20, 2008 8:33 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting that some members are noticing that Google is asking searchers to suggest other URLs they would like to see come up for specific searches. Google says on the search results page, "Help improve search for...

Posted on September 17, 2007 8:13 AM

If you are logged into any Google property (Gmail, AdWords, AdSense, Docs, etc.) while doing a Google search, your results may be personalized, without you really knowing it. A WebmasterWorld thread discusses just that. It is funny, because often you...

Posted on June 26, 2007 7:39 AM

Personalized Search: Fear or Not? Moderator: Danny Sullivan, Editor-in-Chief, Search Engine Land Speakers: Matt Cutts, Software Engineer, Google, Inc. Michael Gray, Owner, Atlas Web Service Gord Hotchkiss, President and CEO, Enquiro Tim Mayer, VP of Product Management, Yahoo! Search Danny...

Posted on June 4, 2007 7:16 PM

Google has announced that they are offering a StumbleUpon type of service. Google Offers "Queryless Search" & Personalized Recommendations from Chris Sherman at Search Engine Land explains it well. In short, Google uses your search history to determine which sites...

Posted on April 19, 2007 7:20 AM

David E. at our forums spotted Google using a "note this" feature next to the cache link in the Google.com search results. I spotted a screen shot of this over here, so I cropped it out to show you here....

Posted on April 8, 2007 5:14 PM

Yesterday, Google announced new personalized maps, a concept that was picked up by WebmasterWorld, DigitalPoint Forums, and Search Engine Watch Forums. On DigitalPoint Forums, a user summarizes the features: Now with Google Maps you can create and share personalized, annotated...

Posted on April 6, 2007 9:56 AM