Everyone was opted in and, as far as I know, there's no way to opt out unless your use Greasemonkey or Greasekit. - Akiva Moskovitz

I call it SearchIcky. - Tamar Weinberg

Tamar, I find that after using it a few days, it gets more and more useful. So you might want to give it a week before concluding that it's not helpful. - Matt Cutts

Observed a strange thing. it is enable when I use it on Firefox but not on Chrome. Anybody else seeing the same issue. - Atul Arora

Good trick: use google.co.uk. If you don't tick the "uk only" box you get the same results as .com, but I dont see any searchwiki mention on it (which I get on .com) - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)

Matt, I really don't want it. I hate "personalized" results as it is. - Tamar Weinberg

Well, you can always log out if you don't want personalized results. - Matt Cutts

i wanted it upfront but don't at the moment. are we equally pissed off? - Berk D. Demir

Matt, but why should I log out? How about making it, erm, optional? Should that be really difficult? I mean, c'mon... why should I log off my Google Accounts that I use regularly (read: Gmail) just because of SearchWiki? How about Google acknowledge that people DO NOT WANT and give the users the power to do what they want? Usually Google has empowered the user, but not in this case. - Tamar Weinberg

Just add &pws=0&hl=all to the end of your search string, very easy to do with search toolbars - Barry Schwartz

personalized and search tailored to intention is kinda like your local bartender, you pull up a chair and they are already pouring you a beer(cause since you go there FREQUENTLY they ASSUME they know what you want) when at THIS MOMENT what you really wanted was a vodka martini! ie. let search be just search! - shayne catrett

Barry, as I told you on IM, that's not a solution. Google should make these things optional -- it's not fair to enforce it upon all users who definitely don't want it. - Tamar Weinberg