What percentage of Americans see personalized search as a "bad thing"?

What percentage of Americans see personalized search as a "bad thing"?

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Answer: 65 percent


Google says it needs access to large amounts of data as a way to “make it useful” and sell personalized ads against it. But a March 2012 study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project found that two-thirds of Americans view a personalized search as a “bad thing,” and 73 percent of those surveyed said they were “not OK” with personalized searches on privacy grounds.

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