Perhaps everyone with a computer and internet access has grown accustom to the ease with which searching for anything can be these days. You wish to take your girlfriend or spouse out to dinner, a movie, or even both, and you want to know which restaurant has the best reviews, or the choices of the latest movies and their times, etc. So you log onto your computer and punch your search query into the Google search engine, and just like magic the latest and most popular results appear. These days its really that simple and convenient.
So a few weeks have passed now and your looking to go out to dinner again. Perhaps the last restaurant you chose from the search engine was not to your liking, so you log onto your computer and punch your search query into the Google search engine again, looking for a different restaurant to try out. Looking at the SERPS you may or may not notice that one of them is the link you chose in your last search a few weeks prior. You can discern this by observing light gray "visits" text as depicted in the image below.
I am going to refer to this as Search Engine Query Intelligence. And I would suppose that the average Joe could probably care less that Google helps us remember our search query's. But if your a webmaster there's one important thing that you probably notice about SERPS in the image above. You guessed it, Liberty Internet Marketing is in 1st place for the term "liberty internet marketing" -- or so it leads me to believe... But it's really not! The fact is it only shows up in 1st place when I use that search query in my browser while also logged in to my Google account, and even when I log out of my Google account the query has a 2nd place ranking. However, when I utilize a different PC that query comes up much lower in the SERPS.
For webmasters who frequent the Google search engine to see how their sites are doing in the SERPS this could be an unpleasant surprise that you may be unaware of. As such, it is essential to know that search engine intelligence; although convenient for the average Joe, is actually detrimental to the webmaster who does not know any better... Just when you thought your website development strategies have been paying off and your site is ranking well in the SERPS, out drops the bottom and back to the drawing board we go...
I would definitely be interested in comments from seasoned webmasters who may know some way around this Google search engine intelligence, and whether or not there is a way to disable it in my browser or Google applications?
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