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Ask HN: How to 100% turn off Google personalization for search?
I have problem that me (I'm in US) and my college (he is Europe) are getting different results for a search a Google query.
We use the following to turn off personalization:
- we added `&pws=0` to query
- we use browser in incognito mode.
Is there any way to turn off personalization completely including IP adress tracking?
- dpapathanasiou 15y agoUse http://scroogle.org/ http://scroogle.org/ instead
- ijt 15y agoHave you tried http://disconnect.me/ http://disconnect.me/?
- tlogan 15y agoIt does not help. It seems like Google decides what to show by IP address - not sure if it based on history of queries from that IP address or based on location of IP address. The same query from my college's day work (just a couple of miles away) gives different results.
- pilooch 15y agoBuild a seeks node, http://www.seeks-project.info/ http://www.seeks-project.info/, configure it to only use Google search as backend. The both of you can then use the Seeks frontend instead of Google, and you'll get the same results. Additionnally, you guys will benefit from each other's actions on results.
- murz 15y agohttp://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54048 http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#...
- tlogan 15y agoWe are using incognito browser (no cookies).