tiobe D remains at 14 but is losing ground for the second month

Kyle Furlong kylefurlong at gmail.com
Wed Jun 13 15:28:41 PDT 2007


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 at 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.



More information about the Digitalmars-d-announce mailing list