Does Google Punish You For Searching?

[lovboa]

Hello everyone,

I have an interesting question I am very curious about.

Does Google skew the results by what you search?
I was reading a blog of a very successful and well known internet marketer and I read that he uses Scroogle Scraper to find his rankings which is -quote from his blog- "a search engine used to search through Google anonymously without any record of previous searches, which can skew the rankings that you see."

Now I am new to SEO. I have built a site for niche--let's call it "warrior" for use as an example. I do not have any tools or software to find my rankings. My site is currently jumping around the pages of Google doing the "google dance".

So almost everyday, I am searching on Google for the word "warrior". I start at page one and search every page until I find it. Sometimes it will be on page 30-40.

One time, I was clicking through the pages so fast (looking for my site) that a human verification page popped up from Google. They said there is an unusual amount of traffic from my IP address and needs to verify that I am not a software program.

Will these searches affect the way I am found on Google? I am confused. Could somebody explain to me what the internet market I quoted means by that?

Thank you everyone.

[Gussieboi]

If you are signed into gmail the searches won't be the same because of your web history.

[Dana Gaus]

You can disable personalized search to avoid this.

[ExploringInfinity]

Solution:

Google Chrome Browser
or Iron Browser (chrome with google's spying codes removed)

When you want to check ranks or do search engine research click the little wrench icon on the browser and open an 'incognito window'.

Then go to google and do your search.

If you want to see google results from different locations (google US if you are in Canada like I am) you just do a search and then add "&gl=us" or whatever country code you want to view results from. Of course you add that to the end of the url in the browser window WITHOUT the quotation marks around it.

This will show you the results from the desired location without you being logged into an account and you will see results the same way someone from that country would see the search results if they had never searched for that term before.

[lame123]

This is something which will effect your searches, it is not something which universal.. There is no such process to configure the Personalized searches of others

[nicktyler]

Google does skew the results for your searches if you are signed in or do not clear your cache or use in private browsing.

Also not sure if this is related but they can get very upset about large volumes of searches from the same IP like if you were running a ranking checker tool regurlarly from an office network computer. The IP can get blacklisted. If that IP is the same as your server then doh!!