[kgwxd]

What you're saying makes sense for location dependent results (e.g. searching a map of nearby places). For something like "origin of the universe" results would be very different across the world. What happens when I'm in a location I'm not usually in? Do I get the local results or the results for the place I usually reside?

[kiriakasis]

But their searches were (at least partially) political in nature, so a result of a national news site talking of a local news would be relevant. "gun control" is location dependent is there is a protest at your city

[kgwxd]

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.

[saalweachter]

How would you like Google to decide what the correct answer to [origin of the universe], [gun control] and [vegetarianism] is?