First off, the Personal Search data comes from information that YOU as a Google+ user choose to share publicly. As someone searching Google (while logged into their Google account (gmail, google+, etc) can choose how Personal Search works or just turn it off.
To turn it off, watch the video below and then read on below the video.
Visibility of personal results
With personal results, you can search across your own content, as well as content shared with you by your friends, like webpages, photos, and Google+ posts. To learn about the visibility of the content in your personal results, you can look at the link that appears beside each result, or for photo results, hover over the photo. Personal results may be marked as Public, Limited or Only you.
No one else will see your private content in their results unless you've shared it with them.
You decide how to share your content from Google products
Public: Content in these search results is public on the web. Public content may appear in the search results of anyone if it's relevant to their search. Here are some examples of these types of results:
A photo shared by your friend on Google+ (or Picasa) that's marked as "Public" (or "Public on the web").
A public Google+ post from a friend.
Limited: Content in these search results is visible to a limited number of people. Here are some examples of these types of results:
A photo from a Google+ (or Picasa) album that your friend shared to a limited group of people. Depending on how your friend set the album's visibility, the photo may be visible only to the specified people or visible to anyone with the link (a combination of letters and numbers that's difficult to guess).
A Google+ post that your friend shared to a specific circle
A link that appears in a Google+ post shared to a limited number of people
Only you: Content in these search results is visible only to you.
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