> (basically stripping out that personalization data), Except for your IP address, along with all of the information sent along in your user agent string (brow

> (basically stripping out that personalization data), Except for your IP address, along with all of the information sent along in your user agent string (browser, operating system, etc....) I don't know how Google takes advantage of any of that, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's no real way to get a 'canonical' unfiltered search at all... and even if you can, it makes this kind of statement 'X overtakes Y' rather meaningless if most searches have the potential to be so heavily filtered/bubbled.