The new Google Toolbar came out today with a new button - ‘Picks For You’. I don’t have the new toolbar, but thanks to InsideGoogle I’ve gone through the picks for me. I’m moderately impressed, but not blown away. The majority of the picks were appropriate but nothing too out there.
Lots of Minneapolis/St. Paul and Hennepin County links - Metro Transit, Science Museum, the Guthrie; all of which make sense based on my searches on Minneapolis neighborhoods and the light rail lately.
Some web services and XML schemas and processing - interesting but none were actually related to any of the languages or markup I use most often (Ruby, Rails, ColdFusion, Javascript).
Some OS X apps came up that look good, this category was probably the most pormising - Yojimbo, PathFinder, and Pimp My Safari.
I was also sent to just one blog - And all that Malarkey, a site I’ve been reading for years. I’m guessing this is the result of some CSS searches.
There was also a ridiculously large number of email to fax and fax to email services, a topic I searched on about a month ago but never took too far. I don’t think I searched for it many times, but I did click a lot of links from the searches; I wonder if that affected how many GPicks I was shown.
Anyway, I think the service looks interesting, and it’s cool that Google is doing something more with the search histories they’ve been keeping. I’ll keep playing with it to see what else comes up for me - if nothing else this really gives some different perspective and insight in to what I search on the most.
Also, not sure how much it matters or not, but my history currently consists of 8,731 searches gathered over nearly 2 years (looks like I started tracking on 20th April, 2005)
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