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Eric Enge interviews Sep Kamvar

Eric Enge posted an interview with Google personalization guru Sep Kamvar.

Some highlights of Sep’s answers below:

The two signals that we use right now are the search history and the location. We constantly experiment with other signals, but the two signals that have worked best for us are location and search history.

Some signals that you expect would be good signals, turn out not to be that good. So for example, we did one experiment with Orkut, and we tried to personalize search…