DISQUS

MN Web Design · 2 years ago

I was so excited to hear about the Google Personalized Recommendations until I read this, thanks for the info!

MN Web Design · 2 years ago

I was so excited to hear about the Google Personalized Recommendations until I read this, thanks for the info!

cameron · 2 years ago

i keep getting emails from goole about theit craps and they want me to upgrade my toolbar to get it on there. im glad to know it sucks before i downloaded it. thanks

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

If you have a toolbar, you might as well upgrade to a newer one. Certainly the beta version for Firefox I find usefu, and I typically upgrade toolbars as soone as they are available.

Whilst I may be critical of this feature, I don't mind the data collection side, because I understand it help make my search results and advertising I see more relevant.

That helps make my user experience on the web better.

Google crps on the other hand doesn't improve my user experience, because it seems to be "group profiled" rather than personal profiled.
I have been placed in an "SEO group" and it seem SEOs are meant to spend all their time checking future pagerank.

Since switching on personalization, I have visited some of the sites above, thus it certainly shouldn't be offered to me as part of a lucky dip unles it was to specific new content.

cameron · 2 years ago

i keep getting emails from goole about theit craps and they want me to upgrade my toolbar to get it on there. im glad to know it sucks before i downloaded it. thanks

AndyBeard · 2 years ago

If you have a toolbar, you might as well upgrade to a newer one. Certainly the beta version for Firefox I find usefu, and I typically upgrade toolbars as soone as they are available.

Whilst I may be critical of this feature, I don't mind the data collection side, because I understand it help make my search results and advertising I see more relevant.

That helps make my user experience on the web better.

Google crps on the other hand doesn't improve my user experience, because it seems to be "group profiled" rather than personal profiled.
I have been placed in an "SEO group" and it seem SEOs are meant to spend all their time checking future pagerank.

Since switching on personalization, I have visited some of the sites above, thus it certainly shouldn't be offered to me as part of a lucky dip unles it was to specific new content.

Armen · 2 years ago

This is an excellent article Andy. Thanks for the info.

Armen · 2 years ago

This is an excellent article Andy. Thanks for the info.

Steli Efti · 2 years ago

Learn something new every time I read something from you Andy. Thankx. Cool article!

Steli Efti · 2 years ago

Learn something new every time I read something from you Andy. Thankx. Cool article!

Hornswaggled · 2 years ago

Google craps is pretty new and possibly just a stab at eBay for outbidding them on stumble.

The power of Stumble is the community. I think that the community here is actually better than the algorithms for finding 'new' content.

I havent tried the new Google Craps but will do so soon. Thanks for reminding me.

Hornswaggled · 2 years ago

Google craps is pretty new and possibly just a stab at eBay for outbidding them on stumble.

The power of Stumble is the community. I think that the community here is actually better than the algorithms for finding 'new' content.

I havent tried the new Google Craps but will do so soon. Thanks for reminding me.

Benjamin · 2 years ago

Thanks for actually taking the tme to include the results so we could compare. Stumble results look much better. I had actually visited most of the pages on the Google "Craps" results also. Great article. I'm glad I did not download it yet.

Benjamin · 2 years ago

Thanks for actually taking the tme to include the results so we could compare. Stumble results look much better. I had actually visited most of the pages on the Google "Craps" results also. Great article. I'm glad I did not download it yet.

Mark · 2 years ago

I guess google isn't the "all seeing eye" as I have sometimes thought. Very cool information you've provided here, as usual.

Mark · 2 years ago

I guess google isn't the "all seeing eye" as I have sometimes thought. Very cool information you've provided here, as usual.

Kentucky Greg · 2 years ago

Your example was great. It drove home the point about google sucking up by recommending tlds. This is sort of the MS approach... release a crappy product and hope to win due to market penetration & try to improve it over time. I can't remember who (aaron wall maybe) posted a couple weeks ago how google released this as soon as they decided not to buy stumble upon. Maybe coincidental but odd.

Kentucky Greg · 2 years ago

Your example was great. It drove home the point about google sucking up by recommending tlds. This is sort of the MS approach... release a crappy product and hope to win due to market penetration & try to improve it over time. I can't remember who (aaron wall maybe) posted a couple weeks ago how google released this as soon as they decided not to buy stumble upon. Maybe coincidental but odd.

Andy · 2 years ago

I was going to give it a try, but for some reasons I couldn't find it on my toolbar :(

Andy · 2 years ago

I was going to give it a try, but for some reasons I couldn't find it on my toolbar :(

Matt Keegan · 2 years ago

I am glad to see one are where Google isn't the winner. They'd have to come up with a much more superior product to StumbleUpon before I would make the move over.

Matt Keegan · 2 years ago

I am glad to see one are where Google isn't the winner. They'd have to come up with a much more superior product to StumbleUpon before I would make the move over.

Binh Nguyen · 2 years ago

Thanks for this article. That do mean StumbleUpon is sending better pages to you compare to Google dice.

Binh Nguyen · 2 years ago

Thanks for this article. That do mean StumbleUpon is sending better pages to you compare to Google dice.