From TED Talks: Beware Online Filters
December 14th, 2011An excellent TED Talk by Eli Pariser: Beware Online ‘Filter Bubbles’. One of the really surprising things he claims, is that even if you’re not logged into Google, the search results are still being filtered for you. He ran a quick experiment, to show how different people got wildly different results for the same word, at the same time on the same day.
Jill
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J. Olkoski
Aldebaran Web Design, Seattle
Jill Olkoski has a BS in Engineering, a BS in Computer Science and an MA in Clinical Psychology. She delights in using her advanced technical and psychological skills to help small business owners develop cost-effective and successful websites.
December 16th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
Jill I already knew about Google and different results. Whilst looking and not a little boasting about my Google rankings I noticed my friend in MN got different results even when doing exactly the same search.
Bearing the above in mind I now take my ranking results with a pinch of salt.
December 16th, 2011 at 8:05 pm
Good advice, definitely. I just had no idea how very different they were. This must drive SEO folks insane.
December 18th, 2011 at 2:56 am
This is something I have recently noticed and was wondering if it was the same for other people. Seems like Google is starting to shake things up 😀 SEO just got a little more interesting!