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samsoe
on Jan 10, 2012
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Google: Search, plus Your World
If you just log out of your google account search should be fully 'de-personalized' right?
jnorthrop
on Jan 10, 2012
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That would be up to Google. They still know your IP address, general location, browser, OS, etc. and can use that to "personalize" your search results.
mahyarm
on Jan 10, 2012
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That can still be 5 different people in one house. Or several hundred in a neighborhood.
user-id
on Jan 10, 2012
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Cookies can solve that. If that's how it works is another question.
tonfa
on Jan 10, 2012
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And use pws=0.
electrotype
on Jan 10, 2012
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Or use NoCrap Google Search Bar (and Firefox) to add pws=0 automatically:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/120144
[disclaimer: I'm NoCrap author]
philfreo
on Jan 10, 2012
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