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Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by vasco on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:17AM (#17430408)
Google does the same. Search for Warsaw while in Poland, yet use english search words. Most results will come up for things in Warsaw, Indiana. Including pages which google has tagged with "Warsaw, Indiana" so they clearly know that's where the results are coming from.
Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by terramex on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:29AM (#17430453)
I'm from Poland and I just searched for 'Warsaw', 'Warsaw car rental' and 'Warsaw law office' using incognito mode and google.com and all of the results were for Warsaw, Poland.

It also detected that I'm in Poland and asked me if I want to switch to polish Google and filter results in polish language.

Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by SOLAR_FIELDS on Saturday June 30, 2018 @07:24AM (#17430438)
Same in Sweden. If you want to know what channels football matches are airing on here the following searches yield entirely different results:

Fotbolls vm

Football World Cup

The former gives you the correct site with the channels listed as the first answer but the second one doesn’t even have the channels on the first page.

Re:Google Downranks 65,000 Pirate Sites in Search Results by dantheman0207 on Saturday June 30, 2018 @09:51AM (#17430863)
I live in the Netherlands but grew up in the U.S. and I often go back and forth between Dutch and English when searching(depending mostly on context). I have also used my google account while living in the U.S. and later in the Netherlands (this used to really mess up google calendar). I’ve been searching for “World Cup” (English) on google.com. I get results in English, but they are parsed from the national Dutch news channel and they link directly to highlight clips on their YouTube channel. Seems like there is a probably a lot of complex integration between Google and local broadcasters to pull that off, and it might work just for me because I spent a lot of time setting language and locale settings to try and accommodate my unique use case.