DISQUS

John Amore · 2 years ago

To tell you the truth, Google personalization scares the heck out of me.

Erika · 2 years ago

Oddly enough, many of my friends have no idea about these social networks.

I think it is valuable to personalize them and then express their importance to you and people will get involved.

I learned about MySpace from a friend years ago, and look at it now! The reason i took such an interest at that time was because my friend telling me about it had such a personal connection with the service the network provided users.

I think as many more newspapers and respected media sites start ascribing these social networking tactics to their efforts, more and more people will get personalized with their usage of the web.

Tamar Weinberg · 2 years ago

I'm not so keen on Google personalization, but I like the way social search is working at least in the StumbleUpon community. I very rarely have to "thumbsdown" anything.

The difference is specifically using the social networks out of the desire to find sites that I would potentially be interested in without an active search for a term. Google personalization is different. I'm not sure I like the idea of them thinking I'll always want to search for "Miami Dolphins" when I type in "dolphin." What if I actually do need to learn about the underwater creatures one day?

HMTKSteve · 2 years ago

If personalization came to Digg would less stories be buried?