How To Disable Google’s Personalization Of Search Results
Do you want to know what the rest of the world gets as answer for their search, instead of what Google thinks you may want to see? I do, therefore the post from MakeUseOf.com by Ann Smarty did catch my interest. She explains it well, both for one-time use and how to change your firefox and chrome browser, and I just copy the one-time part:
2. Disable Google Personalization: One-Time (Browser Independent)
Again, you may like the feature and the fact that Google tries to show you what you really want (your favorite sites or sites you are more likely to like on top), but in some cases you will want to see “real” results (for example, to check how your own website is doing).
In this case, what you need to do is manually modify the search query URL path: just add this parameter:
pws=0The ‘pws=0′ parameter removes the search personalization:
If you don’t want to add the parameter manually, use this browser bookmarklet (courtesy of Google System Blog):
Turn off Google personalization
Just drag it to your Bookmarks toolbar and click after you search Google. The parameter will be added and the search results reloaded for you to see de-personalized results.
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