I guess it comes down to what a search engine should assume your reason for searching is based on what you enter. If the query doesn't strongly imply I'm lookin

I guess it comes down to what a search engine should assume your reason for searching is based on what you enter. If the query doesn't strongly imply I'm looking for "news about X"; "local opinion on X"; or "closest place related to X", I'd like it to assume I'm doing "research on X" so I get results that do not take my arbitrary location into account.