How to Turn Google Personalized Search Results Off Without Logging Out
Published: June 9, 2007 by Aaron Wall in google
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I couldn't get a change on anything I searched
Nice Catch Aaron. Dont have to keep logging out to check things and logging back in.
As to comment above my guess would be that 'pws' must stand for Personalized Web Search
That's a great tip. It is always such a pain to have to log out of my Google account to see where my websites are ranking. Thanks!
Turning off search history has the same affect?
Thank you for publishing the tip. I was just talking to a colleague about this yesterday and how I wish you didn't have to log in/out of your Google account in order to see general results.
Great tip... Now someone needs to write a Firefox extension to append this to every Google query.
Good to know, i always thought some of the keywords i seo'd for sites did'nt show up. But know i think i have a clue ;)
Thanks
Laura commented on the wrong post..
"Hmmm. I wonder what PWS stands for.
Personal Watcher Shutoff?
Play With Search?
What do you think?"
I think personalized web search is probably a good guess.
hello mr. aaron, you may find this tool usefull
http://www.presseblog.at/depersonalizer/
it's a search engine wrapper over google using the parameter you described (thanks matt cutt for the info). it also has a "comparison mode" where you can compare the personalized SERPs with the unpersonalized SERPs.
hello mr. aaron, you may find this tool usefull
http://www.presseblog.at/depersonalizer/
it's a search engine wrapper over google using the parameter you described (thanks matt cutt for the info). it also has a "comparison mode" where you can compare the personalized SERPs with the unpersonalized SERPs.
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