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

Georg Wrede georg at nospam.org
Wed Jun 13 15:13:14 PDT 2007


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!



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