Can’t stand this personalization kick they’ve been going on – the results I got back from one recent search where totally skewed in a way I didn’t want and didn’t ask for:

They know I shared the URLs so if Google wants to implement personalization they obviously don’t need me to join Google+ – this appears to be leveraging one product to hawk another which is what Microsoft kept doing (and kept getting fined for doing) with their Internet Explorer product. Hopefully Google will get investigated and fined – as they should be for this blatantly anti-competitive behavior by a monopoly in the search market.