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That's not personalization, that's query classification. Of course Bing already does this.

What is the personal, private information they could be monitoring for, that would allow them to rewrite better than Bing ?

TheCoreh7y ago

They wouldn't be monitoring. You'd explicitly tell them what personalizations you want, and that would be stored in your machine via a cookie that you can delete at will (just like the color scheme/font)

It could either be a power user setting hidden away (like color scheme currently is), or it could be exposed on the SERP interface via a prompt: "Set JavaScript as your default programming language?" "Set vegan as your default diet?" etc

mcintyre19947y ago

They already do something like this because if you search "array reverse" or any programming question then you get a Q/A tab with stackoverflow almost always at the top.

greglindahl7y ago

That's what blekko did with slashtags, and you have to have your own index to do a good job of evaluating those queries.

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