How many levels of personalized search?

Discussion in 'Google' started by johnegood, Aug 13, 2009.

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    I’ve heard and experienced the effect of personalized search. So, for instance, if I google a term like online homeschool while I’m inside my igoogle account, I find that this site: http://www.homeschoolonline.org comes up first.

    But, when I logout of my own igoogle account, I find that this site is third.

    Here’s my questions.

    - Is Google also logging my IP address and providing some level of customization based on preferences exhibited by that IP address?

    - I've also heard that google customizes for IE and Firefox based on some algorithmic-based differences of interest between these populations. True?

    What do you think?
     
    johnegood, Aug 13, 2009 IP