Kyle Furlong wrote:
> Kyle Furlong wrote:
>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>> Georg Wrede wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Bill Baxter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Does google do that kind of per-user jiggering of rankings with all that search history they hold onto?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'd be surprised if they do, but I'd welcome something like that. Maybe
>>>>> this should be suggested to them? OTOH, searching from your office and home computers would then give different results (because statistically your search profiles would end up being different), which might be awkward for many people. (Imagine remembering something you found at the office, and then trying to find the same thing from home.)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I was thinking more specifically of the case where you have a google account and have it set up to log you in automatically.   The google page I see usually has 'wbaxter@gmail.com' at the top.  For those of us crazy enough to do that, google can watch our every step, and could be using those steps to recommend other steps.
>>>>
>>>> I agree that it's very unlikely they do anything like that for anonymous users.
>>>
>>> For account users, this would obviously be nice!
>>
>> Its called "Web History" its on by default if you keep your google account open.
> 
> http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/topic.py?topic=10470&hl=en

"""
Web History helps deliver more personalized search results based on what you've searched for and which sites you've visited.
"""

Oh... ok so my experience with D popping up a lot in search results may be very atypical then.

--bb

What I would like to have here (and I requested it) is the D.Phobos newsgroup where we could discuss the standard D library. There are many places for improvements, even in the current code.

http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm