Re: Suggestions needed for non-personalized web searches of campus

["Tonkin, Derek K." <Derek_Tonkin () BAYLOR EDU>]

You could always go to google and logout and then run the search but you can't set that up as an alert.  Alternatively, 
you could setup a different user that you used exclusively for this purpose.

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Derek Tonkin
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From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of James H. 
Moore
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 1:42 PM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] Suggestions needed for non-personalized web searches of campus

I have been using Google alerts to find drug back linking on websites.  It started to become less effective a couple of 
years ago.  My suspicion is that Google's algorithms are getting more personalized ( for discussion see:  The Filter 
Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You by Eli 
Parise<http://www.amazon.com/Eli-Pariser/e/B004W4ERWM/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1>r)  In any case, since I rarely search for 
viagra or cialis, when I use Google Alerts search RIT for viagra or cialis, I get no hits.  But today, a colleague, 
running the same set of Google Alerts did get a hit. Grrr.

All of this is driven by "relevance" calculations.  Anyone know a way to get around relevance in search engines (Google 
especially)?  Of do I bite the bullet and use my own web spider for our website.


Jim
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