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In: Google
20 Jul 2009Back in the day Google used to spit out the same types of results whether you searched for something on Google.com or on your country’s version.
Nowadays, however, I have to artificially raise Google’s search numbers because while I may be searching more (and not causing them revenue on account of ad blocking software I use) because whenever googling on google.com for something that’s not in English will not optimize in any way for my country (although I’m logged in to my Google.com account and Google knows who I am, where I’m from, my credit card number and shorts size) and I’ll get crappy useless results from somewhere far-far away (and not even in English, mind you).
This is some sort of domain name based over-localization (not to mention their friggin cookies) and I can’t quite get the universal search box I want.
Outlet for giving a crap.