On Jul 17, 2007, at 4:18 PM, Michel Jullian wrote:
Now you're pulling my liver ;-)
Oh how dreadful! Please excuse me! 8^)
The risks you mention are real, let's just hope they stand by their
"Don't be evil" corporate motto! In any case I don't use gmail for
confidential emails.
I haven't seen any indication the intentions are bad - its probably
just to give better service while building a powerful database for
sales purposes.
Regarding customized search, I see they do indeed have this
feature, but it doesn't apply to their standard search box: all
users typing the same query in the Google.com box at a short time
interval do get the same results in the same order. I am quite sure
of this as many people I know rely on this feature to point to a
web page on the phone: "Google for bla bla, third hit in the list".
These other people may not have signed the agreement. Alternatively,
such communication may be about completely new search parameters for
them. It is easy enough to test. I certainly must get lists very
different from others.
When I type "gambling heffner" (without the quotes) I get:
Personalized Results 1 - 10 of about 15,400 for gambling heffner.
(0.13 seconds)
[PDF] A Perspective on Gambling Horace Heffner November, 2004 - 5:01pm
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In a simple win/lose game, given a house margin of 10 percent, i.e. a
house excess probability of. A Perspective on Gambling. Horace
Heffner November, 2004 ...
mtaonline.net/~hheffner/Gambling.pdf - Similar pages
At this point I would like to be able to see the vanilla search and I
don't know how to do that.
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
