Google Shows Personal Search Filter Tab To Some Users

Dec 1, 2017 - 7:27 am 3 — by
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Eoghan O'Sullivan posted on Twitter that he is seeing the "personal" tab back in the Google search results, at least in his mobile Google search app. Here is his screen shot of the personal tab:

Google Personal Tab

Here is another screen shot from him on desktop, not just the app:

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Personalized results first appeared back in 2012 but then slowly disappeared over the years. We saw it come back this year, briefly, in May but then it disappeared again.

Personally, I cannot bring it up but this is what I saw in May:

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This is what I see now:

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Do you get the personal tab? Yes, I tried logged in - you need to be logged in to even hope to get personal results.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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