Sumit Chachra's Blog » stocks http://blog.chachra.us Tivix, Technology, Django, Startups, Social Media Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:00:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 How personalized search forces me to (re/de)learnhttp://blog.chachra.us/2007/06/10/how-personalized-search-forces-me-to-redelearn/ http://blog.chachra.us/2007/06/10/how-personalized-search-forces-me-to-redelearn/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2007 04:18:16 +0000 Sumit Chachra http://blog.chachra.us/2007/06/10/how-personalized-search-forces-me-to-redelearn/

So I know personalized search is hot and all. But how long do I have to be using the search (logged in as a user) for that engine to start personalizing results ?

Recently (last week or so) I noticed that search for TIVO on Google stopped returning their stock graph etc. at the top. It returned the TIVO website instead as the top link, with an additional “Stock quote for TIVO” below it.

Now I’ve clicked that a few times, forced myself to search for “TIVO stock” instead to get what I want; but still Google hasn’t learnt that when I am searching for TIVO I am really looking for the stock ticker. What they have learnt of course is that “most” people when searching for TIVO (rightfully so) don’t want to know about its stock. How is that personalization? Thats just the law of averages being forced on me.

Please fix this, and the fact that the SERP shouldn’t keep changing on a weekly basis. Thanks!

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For the record I am bullish on GOOG currently and own a small # (< 10) of their stock. I got up this morning and typed GOOG on well Google and this is what I got back (can give quite a shock to the weak hearted!):

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Its still happening with some random numbers showing in the Real-Time ECN. Surprisingly its happening with the GOOG ticker only. I guess their real time feed is messed up, or someone at Google has suddenly turned bearish on its stock! :-)

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Today is an extremely good example of how Jim Cramer’s Mad Money effects after hours stock trading. He recommended Interactive Corp (IACI), ValuClick (VCLK) and Blue Nile Inc (NILE) and this is what happened to them after market closing:

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Each of them up 3-4%. Cramer seems to have the power to move tech stocks like this every now and then, specially when he talks about the dotcom’s.

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