By Jakob Jelling
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Anyone whos been on the net any measure at all knows that

Google has been the search engine of choice for many for a

while now. Whether that continues remains to be seen, but for

now, with MSN still in development and Yahoo going through

some growing pains, many still feel that Google is the

leader. As such, its assessment of value dropping in to the Google Labs

every now and then to see whats going on there.

For example, Googles Personalized search offers a fun and

useful way for searchers to interact with part of the

mysterious and closely-guarded Google search algorithm. You

may set a search profile thats stored as a cookie on your

computer. The effortless -to-utilize Google profile interface allows you

to pick distinct topics that interest you. Once chosen and

saved, you might then do a search from the Personalized search

page. At first, youll see normal Google results. But at the

top of the page is a slider bar, and by moving this to the

right, those identical search results will be dynamically altered

to narrow in to focus on your personalization settings.

For example, a standard search for "restaurants" (without the

quotes), will return several large, well-known sites among

the first 5 results. These include restaurants.com, zagat.

com, restaurantrow.com, the official Subway corporate page ,

and the Yahoo restaurants directory. But lets say youve

selected Texas as a geographic area of interest in your

personalization profile. Move the personalization slide all

the way to the right on the identical search, and now the top 5

results are from guidelive.com , Landrysseafood.com, Houston

Citysearch, and Austin360, followed by restaurants.com . Each

of your personalized results are marked with small spheres of

red, blue, and yellow.

There are many personalization topics to choose from,

including Arts, Business, Computers, Health, and many other

categories which can be further narrowed.