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Turning off personalized search

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BobGW last edited by

Hello,

Is there any way to turn off personalized search in Google.

I used to add

&pws=0;

to the search but that doesn't seem to work anymore.

Thanks!
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josh-riley last edited by

Very easy; here's some options: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/face-off-4-ways-to-de-personalize-google
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Bryan_Loconto last edited by

This should help: http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2410479
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Thos003 last edited by

I simply use incognito in Google Chrome.
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