The help page you pointed us to is about turning off web history, I just found that about turning off personalized results:
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer=54048&topic=10476 They just suggest to sign out, not very helpful, never mind at least it works, and signing out and in is not much trouble if you have checked the "remember me" box. Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Horace Heffner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:Google's personalized results "feature" (was Re: Isomers, LENR, reprocessed D2O) > > On Jul 18, 2007, at 1:21 AM, Michel Jullian wrote: > >> Oh dear you're quite right Horace, you weren't pulling any of my >> organs after all! I had never noticed it said "personalized >> results" at the top of my results page when I was signed in, this >> "feature" must be relatively recent. What a dreadful thing to do >> without a clear warning and without an easy way to turn it off! >> Obviously signing out will work, but there should be an easier way >> such as a checkbox in the preferences page. I wish that in addition >> to being amazingly productive and successful geniuses and not being >> evil they had some sense. > > > I just now found: > > http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py? > answer=54067&ctx=sibling > > which lets you turn it off. > >> >> BTW, your paper on gambling (whose conclusions I fully agree with) >> comes first here too when I run the search you mentioned, whether I >> am signed in or not. > > That is surprising. > > > Horace Heffner > http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/ > > >
