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by nojokes 1595 days ago
Very interesting experience with Google. Were you logged in both times or it was anonymous search? Did you try to somehow refresh your IP address
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I've been logged in into the same google account for at least 10 years.

Google knows exactly who I am, and what I am/want/etc. Yet the moment I landed in the UK, suddenly, I'm English, most of the times getting just *.co.uk results, as if the rest of the world doesn't exist anymore.

I'll be honest, it was helpful to know at what hour the Iceland and Aldi next to my house will open/close, and I didn't even had to tell it my address or turn my location on (this is amazing actually), and when it suggested where to find a dentist since I didn't know the city... But that's pretty much it.