Google effectively ends objective searches

[Mark Mandel]

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu>wrote:

> Have you tried adding the parameter "&pws=0" to the search URL?
>
> http://www.seroundtable.com/google-personalized-pws-13224.html
>
>
Thanks for suggesting it. I've just tried it out and it seems to make some
difference on the first couple of pages, but not later on. Of course that'll
depend on my search history of the terms, so I may try some other searches.
The discussion there also goes into some interaction with Google Instant.

Mark

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