a few Google Changes

[Xstr8guy]

I strongly advise against a webmaster using this tool. We need to see what others see, not what Google thinks "I" should see.

I guess that begs the question... how are we going to see what the surfer sees if everyone is seeing something different? This is going to be a new and exciting (perhaps scary) situation for everyone.

[wnc]

Excellent point.

People have written about the Google sandbox... perhaps now the surfers are the one's throwing up a fistfull of sand... and not-unlike tarot, the readings will be different for each and every surfer.

I curse myself by not buying stock at $90. Google will soon dominate the world, as MicroSoft once did.

[Dzinerbear]

The site says to log out and you'll see normal results.

Of course, I imagine I could always just go to Google in IE and keep my personalized one in Firefox.

And I don't think this is such a bad thing because I think for surfers who look for porn, Google will start presenting them with more porn related results. For a long time it's been a crap shoot trying to get good results for non-sexualized, generic words like "hairy men." Sometimes you show up, sometimes you don't depending on Google's whim of the month.

We'll see how it goes, the way I look at it, we don't have much choice or say in the matter. Google will do what Google does.
Michael

[IdolKnights]

You can always click "classic Home" in the upper right

[Xstr8guy]

How long before some kid logs into his Dad's google account and gets smacked with all porn results for innocent search terms because of this?

[wnc]

You can always click "classic Home" in the upper right

SMILE.

I always try to think as a surfer. TRUE most are not personalized yet. Will they find the off button? Would they wish to turn it off?

[Chilihost]

I really think this is the next step with search engines and could possibly also mean the end of SEO too!