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'Google said that it’ll now deliver search results relevant to your current location no matter which domain you visit.' Strange, since this morning my searches
by Gys 9y ago
'Google said that it’ll now deliver search results relevant to your current location no matter which domain you visit.'
Strange, since this morning my searches suddenly show a google.ae domain. That is something right to left Arabic I think, because I cannot make sense of it... I live in Portugal BTW and only speak North-European languages...
These kind of things happen sometimes (location and language mixups). It makes me wonder what kind of profiles Google has on me and probably a lot of other people. Its more worrying what this kind of major errors possible means to governmental institutes which are probably keen on small details...
- nicwilson 9y agoThat'd be the United Arab Emirates.
- londons_explore 9y agoWith default settings, the location of google search is based on IP address only. The location is pretty reliable, unless you share your IP address (and the few hundred addresses either side of yours) with people from another place.
- chewz 9y agoIt isn’t. I am using VPN server located in Netherlands but the provider is affiliated in UAE. Guess which Google page I am getting?
- averagewall 9y agoYes. I have to use a VPN for all Google services and it's a complete mess. Youtube shows me Japanese and some European language ads depending on where my VPN server happens to be at the time even though everything I actually do on Youtube and Gmail is in English, and even though I'm logged in. They seem to have no idea what language their users use. Search is just as bad, so is Bing. Isn't there an old browser language setting standard that never really got used? Seems better than a special search setting for Google and another for every other site.