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Adding &pws=0 turned the personalized search off and hence got rid of the efreedom. Also, I cleared my web history and searched again. The results are same now

by bhavin 16y ago

Adding &pws=0 turned the personalized search off and hence got rid of the efreedom. Also, I cleared my web history and searched again. The results are same now signed in or signed out. Problem solved! :) Thanks!

Matt_Cutts 16y ago
Glad to hear it. &pws=0 is handy to diagnose whether personalized search is causing something to rank higher for you.