Yeah, you can prove this by searching for Tacos near me…
Were the tacos, in fact, near you? Proof positive google is giving you different results based on your location
I thought it was common knowledge by now.
Agreed, I realized this happened when I was a kid, so I started searching mostly in English for doing school work, the exception being assignments related to history and other regional/national subjects.
What do you mean there are other countries outside of the US?
Google literally tells people this is how it works.
Came into the comments to say the same thing.
Eli Pariser’s TED talk from 2011:
https://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles
The article is quite interesting and has nothing to do with Google customizing results based on location, which many commenters seem to be assuming. Rather, the article is taking about how you can get dramatically different results by searching for the same thing in different languages. While that is pretty obvious, since the “same word” in two different languages is effectively 2 entirely different words to a computer, there are some interesting implications to it.
has nothing to do with Google customizing results based on location, which many commenters seem to be assuming.
Because that’s what the title says. Language isn’t location.
Different results based on language is even more obvious of a fact as location, though. It would take an insane amount of work to prevent, even if it wasn’t obviously the desired outcome.
So it is about languages instead of “where you live”. Can’t Harvard researchers get the title right?
Or are they assuming that languages are only associated with where people live?
I always switch it to Azerbaijan, even though I’m not from there. This makes sure I don’t get stupid results they think should be on top because of my region.
No shit!
Harvard
Oh. American researchers.
Well, certainly less ominous than being based on where I’ll die.
I tried seatching for an anime about some female shaped robot/computer and got hit with a couple pages of ai chat websites.
I don’t care if my location has an influence if all the search results use zero of the words i typed in.
Your site just sucks ass, stop covering that up with excuses lol.
