Comments on: Personalised and real-time search – let me turn them off! http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/google/personalised-and-real-time-search-let-me-turn-them-off.php common sense from a Scottish SEO consultant in Edinburgh Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:21:17 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: bill http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/google/personalised-and-real-time-search-let-me-turn-them-off.php/comment-page-1/#comment-13941 bill Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:22:12 +0000 http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/?p=186#comment-13941 Glad to hear I'm not the only one John. The extension I've been using is called CustomizeGoogle 0.76 but it appears that it's no longer being developed and someone else has started a very similar one called OptimizeGoogle 0.77 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/52498?src=api It has a lot of other options too like removing ads from Maps and making Gmail secure (not that I'll ever use Gmail) Glad to hear I’m not the only one John.

The extension I’ve been using is called CustomizeGoogle 0.76 but it appears that it’s no longer being developed and someone else has started a very similar one called OptimizeGoogle 0.77 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/52498?src=api
It has a lot of other options too like removing ads from Maps and making Gmail secure (not that I’ll ever use Gmail)

]]> By: John Pickering http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/google/personalised-and-real-time-search-let-me-turn-them-off.php/comment-page-1/#comment-13939 John Pickering Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:28:26 +0000 http://www.spiderwritingseo.co.uk/blog/?p=186#comment-13939 Bill, I totally and utterly agree. I sell printer cartridges and most people will go to a search engine to buy them via mail order because of their small size and ease of posting. Why would you want to see results for your local area, sites you have already looked at or worse still someone's inane tweet about the subject. I nearly fell off my chair two weeks ago when I saw my site at No.1 for a competitive term. I had to cancel the expensive holiday, when I saw that the results had been customised from my earlier clicks!! I've now switched off all these customisations, I didn't know that there was a firefox addon that produced results less the adword adverts. I'm off to search for it now... I'm guessing that it won't be provided by a company based within 5 miles of where google 'thinks' I'm based, which is something else they've got drastically wrong. Bill, I totally and utterly agree.
I sell printer cartridges and most people will go to a search engine to buy them via mail order because of their small size and ease of posting.
Why would you want to see results for your local area, sites you have already looked at or worse still someone’s inane tweet about the subject.
I nearly fell off my chair two weeks ago when I saw my site at No.1 for a competitive term.
I had to cancel the expensive holiday, when I saw that the results had been customised from my earlier clicks!!
I’ve now switched off all these customisations, I didn’t know that there was a firefox addon that produced results less the adword adverts. I’m off to search for it now… I’m guessing that it won’t be provided by a company based within 5 miles of where google ‘thinks’ I’m based, which is something else they’ve got drastically wrong.

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