Reno - 11:00 pm on Feb 26, 2012 (gmt 0)

Except it's become increasingly more difficult to gauge comparative position with Google post-Panda, due to personalization, the rise of "local results", the placement of YouTube videos, the insertion of news, et al. So yes, I agree, it tells me something to look at position from my own computer, but to do it right, I feel I'd need a few other people checking with me from their parts of the country, then compare results. I'm one guy and everyone else is as busy as me, so they may do it once or even twice, but not with any frequency. In that sense I miss the nice clean search results page of 2004-5, when my results for a specific phrase would reflect those of others, no matter where they were located and no matter what search history they'd accumulated. Those days are gone and I admittedly can not gather the same level of data in 2012, for the reasons stated, and to my detriment.

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