[LINK] Avoidng search personalisation for research - any links to

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Athony writes,

> Some of the librarians at my work want to know more about how search
> personalisation by companies like google personalises search results..
> Does anyone have any other good links about how to opt-out of
> personalisation? Any other recommendations?


I'd suggest disabling your Google call-home Scheduled Tasks; one at login,
then, daily at different times. Eg, for this stand alone Win XP system ..

 Start > All Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Scheduled Tasks

Then right click for 'properties' for each of your (probably) four Google
call-home tasks that Google somehow secretly loads there, and then select
'disable'. I certainly would not worry about any dire consequences Google 
claims. Certainly nothing bad has happened, and i have current and active 
antiviral protection. And I sure don't like Google scheduling my machine. 

I presume these 'scheduled' Google tasks allow for personalization of my
web experience. I say, nick off, google. Also, if you delete these tasks
google somehow just set them again. I don't hate Google, and have google
set as my browser start-up page, but, I also think they go waaay too far.

Cheers,
Stephen