Turn Off Google Personalized Search
Google has rolled out personalized search to users and being logged in or out had no impact. Today I noticed that I had a new icon in the top left corner of my search results. It stayed in the spot even if I was logged out. I clicked off and my results changed slightly (only listings out of the top 5). When I performed another search I found that the option was turned back on and I had to click off again.
Is anyone seeing this in their account? Do you want Google personalizing your results?
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yea man, that is annoying as hell. I thought it was a Chrome bug that kept turning it back on.
I didn’t even notice that it kept switching back to “on” the first few times.
Not cool! I’m not a fan of personalized search. I like discovering new content/sites, thank you very much. My little trick is adding “&pws=0″ onto the end of a URL where a search has been performed. Returns normal results.
Try that in a few different browsers and see what kind of results you get in each.