OpenSearch Plugin Ensures Your Google Results Are Not Personalized

The other day we reported about a way to turn off Google Personalized Search Results, which required you to add “&pws=0” to the end of your search string. Now, you no longer need to remember to do that. You can install an OpenSearch plugin on your Firefox or IE7 browser that does this for you. […]

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The other day we reported about a way to turn off Google Personalized Search Results, which required you to add “&pws=0” to the end of your search string.

Now, you no longer need to remember to do that. You can install an OpenSearch plugin on your Firefox or IE7 browser that does this for you. Go to the Google Search Plugin without Personalized Search page and install the appropriate version. I was waiting for someone to put this together — thanks Joost de Valk.


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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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