Oh dear you're quite right Horace, you weren't pulling any of my organs after all! I had never noticed it said "personalized results" at the top of my results page when I was signed in, this "feature" must be relatively recent. What a dreadful thing to do without a clear warning and without an easy way to turn it off! Obviously signing out will work, but there should be an easier way such as a checkbox in the preferences page. I wish that in addition to being amazingly productive and successful geniuses and not being evil they had some sense.
BTW, your paper on gambling (whose conclusions I fully agree with) comes first here too when I run the search you mentioned, whether I am signed in or not. Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Horace Heffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 3:25 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Isomers, LENR, reprocessed D2O > > 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 > File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML > 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/ > > >
