Google To Personalize Search Results To Your Previous Searches

Nov 16, 2023 - 7:41 am 7 by
Filed Under Google

Woman Phone Glow Phone Google Logo

Google also announced that later this year, in the US, Google will make it easier for you to find your favorite sites by showing you sites you view more often, more often in the search results. Plus, Google will make the search results more personalized with Perspectives, highlight more creator profiles and more.

Google explained that sites you visit more often may be more likely to appear at the top of your search results. Those result will be labeled as "you visit often" and Google will also show that it was ranked higher because you visit the site within the about this result feature.

Google may show a label that you visit this page or site often.

I guess that means that click-through rate improves rankings but that would be your click through rate on sites you visit often impact your specific and personalized rankings in Google Search.

Perspectives will also get an update to show you content from social media platforms, forums and other communities, including blog posts.

Plus those content creators will be highlighted with their face, the social network, follower count and maybe more. We saw this being tested:

Google Search Follower Count Snippet 1682424555

This is expanding perspectives:

And it is not ranking specific:

I did ask about content vs authors and Danny answered it the same way to Lily Ray that he did to me:

I should note that the previous query looks at your history and will use that to show you personalized results. It is unclear how much of your history and the only way to turn it off is to turn off all personalization or use Google signed out. To opt out, you can tap on "About This Result" via the three dots , tap on "Manage personal results" and toggle off "Show personal results."

I should note that with all these announcements, the tone has been more around how Google has lost its way and is adding unnecessary features that are more a distraction than useful. That is what I am seeing from the community.

Forum discussion at X.

Update: Some are seeing the "You visit often" label in the search results on December 5th:

Google You Visit Often Label

 

Popular Categories

The Pulse of the search community

Search Video Recaps

 
- YouTube
Video Details More Videos Subscribe to Videos

Most Recent Articles

Search Forum Recap

Daily Search Forum Recap: December 13, 2024

Dec 13, 2024 - 10:00 am
Search Video Recaps

Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google December Core Update, AI Overviews Gemini 2.0, Apple Visual Intelligence, Search Console Updates, Indexing Bugs & More

Dec 13, 2024 - 8:01 am
Google Updates

Google December 2024 Core Update Is Live - What Are We Seeing

Dec 13, 2024 - 7:51 am
Google Updates

Google To Have More Core Updates, More Often

Dec 13, 2024 - 7:41 am
Google Ads

Google Ads AI Generated Reports BETA

Dec 13, 2024 - 7:31 am
Google

Google Lens Serving Outage Yesterday

Dec 13, 2024 - 7:21 am
Previous Story: Google Search Adds Follow Feature