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To me, the biggest part of this announcement is this: We’re also introducing a prominent new toggle on the upper right of the results page where you can see wh
by JeremyBanks 15y ago
To me, the biggest part of this announcement is this:
We’re also introducing a prominent new toggle on the upper right of the results page where you can see what your search results look like without personal content. With a single click, you can see an unpersonalized view of search results.
Google's slowly been making their results more personalized, without having an easy way to opt-out (if you use a Google account). Now that there's this prominent option, I'm less bothered by them adding more personalization by default.
- josefresco 15y agoHow far does this 'de-personalization' go? Do they still factor in user agent, screen size, geography etc.? I would guess that even an anonymized Google search is still fairly 'personal'.
- samsoe 15y agoIf you just log out of your google account search should be fully 'de-personalized' right?
- jnorthrop 15y agoThat 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.
- tonfa 15y agoAnd use pws=0.
- electrotype 15y agoOr use NoCrap Google Search Bar (and Firefox) to add pws=0 automatically: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/120144 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/120144 [disclaimer: I'm NoCrap author]
- philfreo 15y agoThey still cookie you
- bryanh 15y agoYou can always compare with http://scroogle.org/ http://scroogle.org/. Though I sometimes wonder if its results have been "personalized" for a collective mind.
- modeless 15y agoThat means no results from your friends, no private information and no personalization of results based on your Web History. This toggle button works for an individual search session, but you can also make this the default in your Search Settings. We provide separate control in Search Settings over other contextual signals we use, including location and language.