Google search on the word Linux took just 0.4 seconds, but it had 95 million hits. Too bad if the one you need is No. 10,000 on the list.

But researchers are poised to revolutionize search technology over the next few years. The most common thrust is to personalize search engines

I am checking out the Google Version of the personalized search service, well I provided it my profile and then tried a search on both the regular engine and the personalized one, but there was no difference in the result set ...Let me give it a shot again and see if things get better....

To try it out the URL is http://labs.google.com/personalized.