It's strange how often I see this complaint about wanting a non-personalized version of Google.
On google.com, there is a toggle switch allowing you to turn off personal results on a particular search (it's been there since the launch of SPYW).
And if you're looking for a more permanent setting, there's one available in the Google search preferences (available through the gear on the search results page or at https://www.google.com/preferences) which allows you to set it to "Do not use personal results".
Google still does a horrible job at respecting your browser language. Someone, with very questionable logic, thinks that UI language should be directly related to the physical location of the browser.
Even when explicitly specifying English, it still doesn't work. For example, the alt text for Google logos will appear in the "geo-language", regardless of UI setting.
Other Google sites, such as blogspot, switch to the geo-language without any apparent way to override.
Sometimes, Chrome even kicks in and asks if you'd like to translate the content into the correct language.
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It's strange how often I see this complaint about wanting a non-personalized version of Google.
On google.com, there is a toggle switch allowing you to turn off personal results on a particular search (it's been there since the launch of SPYW).
And if you're looking for a more permanent setting, there's one available in the Google search preferences (available through the gear on the search results page or at https://www.google.com/preferences) which allows you to set it to "Do not use personal results".
Google still does a horrible job at respecting your browser language. Someone, with very questionable logic, thinks that UI language should be directly related to the physical location of the browser.
Even when explicitly specifying English, it still doesn't work. For example, the alt text for Google logos will appear in the "geo-language", regardless of UI setting.
Other Google sites, such as blogspot, switch to the geo-language without any apparent way to override.
Sometimes, Chrome even kicks in and asks if you'd like to translate the content into the correct language.
This is moronic.