Personalize Your Google Search

When you search with Google, it sees you as any other Google user. It has no idea what your interests are. Therefore, for the same search words Google will deliver the same results to you and everyone else in the world searching with the same language and country selections. But, what if I told you that Google can provide search results based on your interests? Are you a sports fan, a technology enthusiast, a gourmet chef? You can make sure Google knows this and have it tailor your search accordingly. Many words can have many meanings and if Google knows your interests it can give more emphasis to pages that are more likely to work for you. No, Google is not a mind reader; you have to tell it what your interests are. And you have to use a different Google search page that is in beta in the Google Labs. It's called Google Personalized Search. To check it out, open up a Google Personalized browser window by clicking this link icon to their left. These are the results that Google thought were more relevant to your search, based on the interests you entered in your profile. As you move the slider to the right to increase the degree of personalization, these results move closer to the top. How does all this work? Heck if I know. But if you are interested in some technical guesswork on the subject, I found a Mark Fleming is the founder of a new blog called Google Tutor & Advisor