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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by gray_-_wolf on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:45PM (#16777746)
> That said, it would be nice if there was an easy way to turn off this search personalization on a search-by-search basis

it is, it's called anonymous window

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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by bringtheaction on Friday April 06, 2018 @08:34PM (#16778708)
You are talking about incognito mode / private browsing right?

When I open an incognito tab and search for “latex”, the entire first page of results is still all about LaTeX for me and I would bet my left hand that this is not universally true.

In other words, you are still seeing personalized results.

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Re:Google seeks to limit ‘right to be forgotten’ by claiming... by obmelvin on Saturday April 07, 2018 @02:57PM (#16782173)
Yup, I tried the same thing. I would guess they are still doing some sort of server-side personalization and/or identification, they just don't continue to track you via cookies. For me it wasn't that surprising, I tried doing this from an IP address associated with a large CS dept.
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