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Turn Off Google’s Personalized Web Search

Title: Turn Off Google’s Personalized Web Search
URL: http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/06/10/personalized-search/
Printed: January 6, 2009
Source: The Rimm-Kaufman Group Blog, info@rimmkaufman.com

From Matt Cutts via Aaron Wall, a tip to turn off Google’s personalized web search without having to log out of Google:

You can turn Google’s personalized web search results off by adding &pws=0 to the URL of a search query.

If you are logged into your Google Account this link shows your personalized version, while this one shows the general unpersonalized SERP.

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