Google+ Personalized Search Gets Too Personal

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jfruh

on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @03:39PM

jfruh writes "Most users with Google+ accounts have started to notice "Google+ Your World" search resuls, which post little thumbnails of your friends above search results that are tailored based on your social network. That's all well and good when you're looking up neutral terms like 'baseball,' but you friends might be uncomfortable knowing that you're seeing their mugshot over terms like, say, 'syphilis'."
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