Comments on: Google uses your Location to personalize search results

By: alien3

alien3 — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:43:27 +0000

My guess is when searching, top priorities are:
1. search engine TLD (de, com, co.jp, es, fr, etc.)
2. language(i.e. localization)
3. location
As a test, you may want to try “bars und kneipen” and “restaurant” in French or any other language you happen to know, from any google.TLD.
The word “restaurant” is pretty much utilized anywhere in the world and will always return different results.
Nevertheless, your location is important to get you where the search engine _thinks_ you are, and automatically set the language (look for “hl=de” in the query string). For example, you made all your queries with “google.de”.
While it’s true that your location is not *that* relevant when conducting a precise search such as “bars und kneipen koblenz”, it is however very important in that it works in a very localized way. It’s like going to the local library in your very town, and not elsewhere.
One should always be aware of some of the intrincacies and other subtleties when searching the web.
True, what you gather is what you ask for, and how.

By: alien3

alien3 — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:43:27 +0000

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