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At least logged into my Google account, if I type "Justine", it suggests "Sacco" as the top completion. It's not all that hyperbolic to say "ruined your life" when your first name is literally a global URI to the (perceived) worst thing you've ever done.

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I once created a server-side app that would monitor where certain search terms showed up in google rankings, so you could monitor change over time.

The biggest challenge we faced was that google dramatically changes your search results based on who you are, and where you are.

My point is - Justine Sacco isn't even on the first page of Justines for me. Maybe google just thinks Sacco is the best Justine for you, but it's probably not as bad as a "global uri".

If you add pws=0 to your querystring, it'll search without personalization. Actually, there are other factors at play too [1], but that alone should work well enough.

1: http://moz.com/blog/face-off-4-ways-to-de-personalize-google

yeah, but the goal was to track how your ranking would appear to individual users. not to a hypothetical completely unpersonalized user with no geographic location.

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