Tuesday, June 12th, 2007...12:41 pm
How To Turn Off Google Personalized Search Results
Google has previously said that the only way to turn off personalized search results was by logging out. Well it turns out that’s not the case.
According to Matt Cutts, all you have to do to bypass personalized results is add “&pws=0″ to the end of a search string.
For example, assuming you are logged in, a personalized result would be:
http://www.google.com/search?q=blogging
And the following would be an example with personalized results turned off:
http://www.google.com/search?q=blogging&pws=0
10 Comments
June 13th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
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June 14th, 2007 at 2:54 am
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June 14th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
Does that mean you have to manually add this for each search?
June 15th, 2007 at 3:55 am
I think you should do it manually, Digitalnomad. I have tried it, and I need to add it manually.
I wonder if there is other methods to turn it off?
June 16th, 2007 at 5:36 am
There is a plugin for Internet Explorer and Firefox that was just released. You can get it from here:
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/google-de-personalized-search-for-firefox-and-ie7/
June 16th, 2007 at 8:51 am
Very interesting …
June 16th, 2007 at 9:03 pm
this is very interesting…. I wondering why some prefers to use personalized search
June 18th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
To Dan:
Thanks for the plugin. This is off topic, but I am getting some wierd spam messages from your “followup comments via email”.
Don’t know the solution, but got like 3 today all at once.
Example:
Author: fznajxwcrx
Comment:
Hello! Good Site! Thanks you! xvwqrlnndxg
June 18th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
Yeh some comments have been getting through Akismet. It’s really annoying. I might have to go back to moderating comments again.
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:37 am
Very usefull information. Thanks
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