Google Search results are customised based on your location and your search history. Can you do a search that is independent of these factors, so that different users in different parts of the world get the same results for a particular search term?
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YES and NO. To search on Google being indipendent from you search history YES! you simply have to reset browser (delete cache, cookies, history, etc) prior searching on Google. The browser MUST not have Google Toolbar installed too. Since you probably don't want to do it on the main browser you are using every day a good option could be to install a browser just to do these type of tests, You can then reset such browser whenever you want because you are not interested in keeping cookies/history/contents... there. To search on Google being location indipendent NO! I think it's not possible because Google sees the IP you use to navigate and can easily geo locate you from it. You would need to search using a proxy, but still Google would geolocate the proxy from its IP. |
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No. Customization and localisation is how Google is offering their results now as it allows them to offer better and more targeted results to their users. There is no way to stop this. |
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I am totally Agree Google Identify your IP Address not the browser Settings, and Its extremly target to the localisation, Get another IP address and Search otherwise try Proxy Websites, |
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You can use the privacy mode of your web browser to avoid personalization. No cookies, no cache, no history means no personalization. You cannot turn off localization, which is based on your IP address, and is part of Google's load balancing (your queries are returned from the nearest/fastest data center). You can use various proxy services to search from a location that is different from your own. There are also some tools that let you enter a search and it will return results from a different target country. Ironically, some of the most popular ones search as if you are in the US if you are in another country. The way these work is that you enter a query and then that website forwards the query onto Google from their own server which is local to where you want your results from. Thus, Google thinks the request is coming from London instead of Texas. The results are then passed along to you from the proxy server. (Incidentally, this also has the effect of turning off personalization since it isn't your computer that actually makes the search.) If you use Firefox, you can also try an extension called Google Global that will show you the search results for the same query from different countries. |
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