Is the Google SERPs page affected by my previous searches?

14 years ago

Google will serve up what can best be described as 'personal results' based on your past searches.

So the answer is yes.

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fushigi

14 years ago

Hello! Yes, I had the exact same situation. For some reason google does skew the results. Try downloading the firefox plug-in called "google global" it will allow you to search with accurate results. You could also try using a proxy or hidemyass.com these were both suggested to me and worked very well to solve the problem.

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JGK

14 years ago

Originally Posted by fushigi

Hello! Yes, I had the exact same situation. For some reason google does skew the results. Try downloading the firefox plug-in called "google global" it will allow you to search with accurate results. You could also try using a proxy or hidemyass.com these were both suggested to me and worked very well to solve the problem.

Thanks for the responses. So i am NOT crazy. Phew
If I download any more plugins for Firefox it will croak

I'll see what Google Global does.

I jumped on HidemyAss and found its very anonymity worked against me as it still assigns an IP address somewhere in the US ....so then I end up with local results for that IP...no good.
I still want to search locally but without the bias.

JK

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sanssecret 14 years ago

If you don't want to use the FF plugin, there's a search string you can use.

How to Turn Google Personalized Search Results Off Without Logging Out | SEO Book.com
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  [quote=sanssecret;2405408]If you don't want to use the FF plugin, there's a search string you can use.
  How to Turn Google Personalized Search Results Off Without Logging Out | SEO Book.com
  
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AnnYM

14 years ago

Originally Posted by fushigi

Hello! Yes, I had the exact same situation. For some reason google does skew the results. Try downloading the firefox plug-in called "google global" it will allow you to search with accurate results. You could also try using a proxy or hidemyass.com these were both suggested to me and worked very well to solve the problem.

even i struggled with this some months back- my client called me to say that he noticed the site had slipped in rankings- I told him thats not possible as I am monitoring it daily! turns out he was right and what an embarrassment for me

so then this friend of mine told me about this phenomenon and told me to try google global. if you don't want to download this you will have to delete all history and cookies and search again.

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Ben Holmes

14 years ago

Ditto what the others say... you can't get accurate results, because Google is attempting to tailor the results you get with what you yourself have indicated that you're looking for in the past.

This really confused me too at first - but it's merely another way that Google is trying to best all other search engines, by providing the absolutely best possible experience to users... unfortunately, that can fool us if we are really looking at SERP results.

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JGK

14 years ago

Found this about turning off Google personalization/stars

Matt Cutts said you can turn off Google's personalized web search results by adding &pws=0 to the URL of a search query.
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Log out of your Google account

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dahlgren_m

14 years ago

I also struggled with this problem for some time. I am using chrome and Firefox.

Their is a couple of things you can do besides installing a plugin ( I haven't tested the plugin ).

So as you probably already figured out google uses the browser's history to measure keywoords to relevant site's you click on a lot.

If you delete all history you should get pretty accurate results again.
What I do is, I use google chrome for most of my webmaster work and firefox as my keyword researcher and backlinking. In firefox you can switch on "never remember history" or something like that. Seo Quake works better with firefox also.

There is probably a easier way of doing this, like using a plugin.

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JGK

14 years ago

Still having a headache over non matching results from Market Samurai rank tracker and the results I see in my own Google Search ranking checks.

Market Samurai says I should be #12 for a keyword but my own search with all history off/logged out of google/adding &pws=0 and it shows me at #2
Is IP customization overriding everything?