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A convenient tool. Although I personally am able to open an incognito window in my browser, not all customers or forums readers are. Impersonal.me gives me an easy way to tell them that they are not no. 1 in SERPs in everyone elses browsers.
I'm not buying the accuracy or convenience. It's just adding parameters to the URL string, but it's not removing browsing history. Keeping a clean browser is better.
Like the fact that I can easily change the language and country. A tool I use on an daily basis.
Great tool to direct customers to when they simply don't get how to search "impersonalized" from their computer.
First a warm welcome to our ca. 20 new users. 18 votes and 3 comments within one hour is not bad really for a start. Now a question: How does the tool overcome personalization? It seems it only adds a few parameters. We know though that pws=0 does NOT remove all personalization, for example you still get localized results based on your geo-location. So I'd like to know a bit more to be able to understand how it works and whether it is a reliable way to display not personalized results.
@onreact_com The new users probably came from my tweet https://twitter.com/riisager/status/247663893936226305 (win/win) for inbound.org and for me It does nothing more than add "PWS" - you're right +1 and local is not included in the filter
Try to play around with geo http://www.impersonal.me/#q=Tadeusz%20Szewczyk&hl=de&tld=.at&gl=AT http://www.impersonal.me/#q=Tadeusz%20Szewczyk&hl=sv&tld=.se&gl=SE
Didn't feel like voting prior to this one :) Have been following the discussion though.
Another way this can be done is by using incognito mode in Google Chrome.
Great tool. I use it a lot together with the SeoQuake plugin.
Or just take 2 minutes and create a custom search engine that adds the &pws=0 parameter to your searches. I wrote about it here last year - http://www.johnfdoherty.com/beginners-guide-to-search-personalization/
it takes less than 500ms to load www.imparsonal.me (100% CDN hosted) and is much easier to explain to your customers :-)
True. But for personal use, all I have to do now is type PWS and Space, and then I type my query and get a depersonalized search. Takes ~.5sec longer.