Google de-Personalized Search for Firefox and IE7

14 June, 2007 Joost de Valk 56 comments, leave your own!

I've done it myself, I've created an OpenSearch plugin which adds &pws=0 to the query and thus shows you the clean results. This plugin easily allows you to search without having personalized searchresults, without logging out of Google. It'll work with Firefox 2+ and IE7.

Here it is: Google Search Plugin without Personalized Search.

Update: it now truly works in IE7, and does Google Suggest on Firefox as well.

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37 Responses to “Google de-Personalized Search for Firefox and IE7”

  1. By PocketSEO Fri, June 15th, 2007 at 01:27

    Great tool... It is a fast way to compare personalized results with the normal results.

  2. By James Fri, June 15th, 2007 at 09:37

    Now why didn't I think of that??? Excellent idea!

  3. By Joost de Valk Fri, June 15th, 2007 at 09:42

    @PocketSEO: thx :)

    @James: yeah well :P

  4. By microdesign Fri, June 15th, 2007 at 10:02

    hee man awesomely done!

  6. By Dawn Fri, June 15th, 2007 at 20:30

    That's awesome. Is there one available for google.ca as well?

  7. By Joost de Valk Fri, June 15th, 2007 at 21:39

    @dawn: there is now!

    @everyone else: thx for the kinds words!

  8. By Dawn Fri, June 15th, 2007 at 21:44

    Thanks Joost! :)

  9. By microdesign Sat, June 16th, 2007 at 22:47

    btw didnt noticed it yet but really cool those comments that let u show where your stuff is published ;)

  10. By Beginners Guide to SEO Mon, June 18th, 2007 at 18:28

    Thanks for the plugin, it was getting to be a headache to have to keep login in and out.

  11. By Portland SEO Tue, June 19th, 2007 at 05:43

    Great plugin! This is very helpful for comparing results. Also, nice not to have to log out of Google all the time! Thanks!

  12. By John King Tue, June 19th, 2007 at 06:33

    Excellent plugin! it would be nice if you could change the G logo a bit so I can check if I'm searching personalized or non-personalized in a glance.. Perhaps make the google G in red or some other minor alteration.

  13. By franz enzenhofer Wed, June 20th, 2007 at 09:07

    hi, nice extensions. to compare personalized and depersonalized google search results pages you can use this little tool presseblog.at/depersonalizer/ (not installable, a web tool)

  14. By Emule Tue, July 3rd, 2007 at 16:09

    Please add google.com.BR version :0)

    Regards.

  16. By m.online Thu, July 5th, 2007 at 15:39

    Thank you, that's verry helpful, and not just for seo-s!

  17. By Marios Alexandrou Sun, July 8th, 2007 at 21:23

    Seems like a great idea! But the download link doesn't work for me. Looks like someone was able to download just 3 days ago though.

  18. By Chris Sanderson Mon, July 9th, 2007 at 18:04

    Same issue here the URL for the list of plugin options is loading with an error. I loaded the Plugin on another PC other day, worked great!

  19. By rob nicholson Fri, July 13th, 2007 at 17:40

    argh my laptop was stolen - reinstalling everything and cant download your plugin!! argh!

  20. By Marcos Fri, July 13th, 2007 at 18:18

    :(

    Warning: require(/var/www/joostdevalk.nl/functions.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /var/www/joostdevalk.nl/htdocs/code/google-nops/index.html on line 2

    Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/var/www/joostdevalk.nl/functions.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /var/www/joostdevalk.nl/htdocs/code/google-nops/index.html on line 2

  21. By Joost de Valk Fri, July 13th, 2007 at 18:21

    Sorry about that guys!! Fixed it :)

  22. By Ashish Mon, October 1st, 2007 at 08:54

    Thanks thanks and thanks to you. i needed this plugin very much.
    do u have for google.co.in also
    and also it does not seem to work when we use google toolbar search option??

  23. By zhanna Mon, December 10th, 2007 at 01:08

    I believe it installed correctly, but don't see &pws=0 in my search urls. How can I make sure that I did in fact install it correctly and it is running?

    Thanks.

  24. By Joost de Valk Mon, December 10th, 2007 at 09:56

    @Anish & @zhanna: you need to make sure to be searching from the firefox or ie7 built in search box, it won't keep the pws=0 when using "normal" search or when using the google toolbar search.

  26. By google man Fri, February 29th, 2008 at 07:29

    i couldnt clear my google search box in firefox and i tried searching and doing everything. this is the only thing that worked for me. THANKS A MILLION!!

  27. By Q5 Grafisch Webdesign Wed, April 9th, 2008 at 19:11

    I think this plugin is great. I'm gonna try this right now, great article.

    Zoiezo deze hele site is supergoed :) Thanks!

    gr. Mark

  29. By my name Fri, June 13th, 2008 at 15:31

    link doesnt work

  31. By Bram Bolt Sat, September 6th, 2008 at 09:00

    Thanks, it works great!

  33. By Brian Moy Mon, November 17th, 2008 at 13:39

    I'm not sure it worked for me...

    I'm using FF 2.0.0.18 and I did install it correctly. After a Google search, I still see "Personalized based on your web history. More details"

  34. By Blogger Rise Sat, May 2nd, 2009 at 10:31

    How if we using the new Firefox 3.5 Beta 4, is it work ???

  35. By Typical English Wed, June 3rd, 2009 at 10:11

    Good one, Olehjortland !
    Works great

  36. By Nicholas Vembos Fri, June 19th, 2009 at 14:06

    Hello everyone.
    Is there a parameter to search for a specific word which or text that is not placed inside the regular content of a page but in the code, outside of the of the page ?
    Thanks to all.
    Cheers
    Nick

  37. By Aleks Sat, August 22nd, 2009 at 02:57

    Thanks for great work again.

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  1. By olehjortland (olehjortland) Mon, March 9th, 2009 at 21:11

    This is pretty neat: http://tinyurl.com/9vskow

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