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LPT: Adding "&peek_pws=0" to the end of the url on your Google search will turn off personalisation (lemm.ee)
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Adding the url parameter "&peek_pws=0" to the end of the url on your google search turns off personalised results

Discoverd it after Google suggested it for a search term that didn't have many results

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[–] teft 45 points 4 days ago (2 children)

replacing the url with duckduckgo.com will also turn off google personalization.

just saying

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

This should be a DDG bang! Sometomes the DDG results are crap.

[–] slazer2au 0 points 4 days ago

But that replaces it with Bing and do you really want that?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

That should be standard.

[–] RaoulDook 1 points 4 days ago

Also you can use Startpage, which works like a proxy to google