| Increased Transparency in Google's Search Results |
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Google has announced that he would in the weeks ahead explain more thoroughly than today why, given several criteria, the results page of its search engine has been customized. Thus, this message will soon be displayed at the result of a search:
Clicking on the "More Details" link will permit the user to know why and on which base the results have been personalized: Identification and IP geo-targeting, previous search result analysis, previous visited web sites, etc.
For the moment, these features don't seem to appear in the Middle-East region Google versions, though it is surely only a question of day... Sources: - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/07/more-transparency-in-customized-search.html |
