Tuesday 8 December 2009

The Guardian: what are the best TV ads of the noughties?

The Guardian take an interesting look at what they feel are the best ads of the last ten years.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/2009/dec/01/best-tv-ads-of-the-noughties-decade

Monday 7 December 2009

Personalised Search for Everyone

On Friday Google switched it's default search results to personalised

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/personalized-search-for-everyone.html

What does this mean to searchers?

Basically, every computer accessing Google is now being personalized based on previous searches, signed in or not, so any desktop, laptop or internet kiosk will start tracking everything everyone searches for and you won't be able to access the same search results from any two computers.

If you want to disable history-based customisation, follow these steps:

In the top right corner of the search results page, click Web History. On the resulting page, click Disable customisations.(Because this preference is stored in a cookie, it'll affect anyone else who uses the same browser and computer as you).