Someone on IRC mentioned that Google Labs has released a new service that personalised Google results based on your own preference. It is called Google Personalized and it roqs.
You start by telling it your preferences, basic categories that interests you, this gets saved as a cookie on your machine. Thereafter searches that you do default to no personalization but it has a nifty sliding bar for level of personalization which changes the results accordingly.
I did a simple test by choosing only an interest in Open Source and then did a search on Windows, you can see the results pre and post filtering in the following screenshots.
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Kudos to Google for this, if this is a sign of things to come I am very impressed. I can only hope that Google will eventually allow us to filter our searches using something like regular expressions, there are a few domains that I never want to see in a search result.
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