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Why are Google search results different if you are log'd into Google or not?
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 I get different results when I'm log'd into my Google account associated with my website than if I'm not. The same country is occurring. So how can I rely on the google results I'm seeing? For instance my site is page 1 with the improvements I made based on SEOMOZ if I'm log'd in. Yet I'm not on the first 25 pages if I'm not logged in. 
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 I wanted to know if my Google search results (my search) were affected by personal searches and you answered my question. Thank you. The changes I made are irrelevant and the time is irrelevant since just really wanted to know what was affecting my google search results. Thank you for the help. 
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 Susan what kind of changes you did? You have to wait some time to see the results of your changes. What is my search? 
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 Thank you that is just what I wanted to see. I made changes we jumped considerably on "my search" So now that I can clear the results. I am much happier. Thanks. 
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 Hi Susan, I think your answer and solution is here http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=54048. I think the best is to wait for the results of Seomoz ranking tool. If you are in top 50 you will see it. What kind of improvements you did to your site? 
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