Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'personalization'

Algorithms Alone Won't Cut It: Human Powered Search is Coming

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...

The Next Five Years of Search

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...

Google Testing Suggest Search Result Feature?

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...

Turning Off Google Personalized Results

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...

Personalized Search: Fear or Not?

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...

Google Stumbles With "Queryless Search"

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...

"Note This" Button In Google.com Search Results

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....

Google Personalizes Maps by Adding "My Maps" Feature

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...


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