14 September 2010

Google Up Close and Personal « Tennant: Digital Libraries

Google Up Close and Personal « Tennant: Digital Libraries:
"I did a vanity search, to see how many characters it would take before my page sifted to the top. For me, it only took “roy te” for my web site to be the top hit. But that was for me. Imagine my dismay when I discovered that a hair salon filled the page of results for everyone else.
So that sent me on a quest to purge all knowledge Google might have of me, or what I liked in the past, in order to recreate the experience that everyone else would have. Little did I know how difficult and unsatisfying that would be.

Roy Tennant"

It turns out that it is very difficult to escape from Google's Personalized search which began in December of 2009
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