[bdegman]

It's not pointless if you are looking for a place to eat sushi. You're performing a hypothetical search for something that you aren't actually looking for and then calling the results pointless.

[Wilya]

Google can pinpoint your location very accurately, and they are usually quite agressive in promoting local results (including for tech queries, which is a pretty bad idea), yet they ask people in Poland: "In which US city are you ?".

I find that quite funny, to be honest.

[vacri]

In Australia get the same search results as you, but there's no 'local search' section. I'm logged into google in FF

In chrome, with no login, I get a different set of results, including some local restaurants. Curious.