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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by rcoveson on Thursday August 26, 2021 @09:54AM (#28314958)
The other day I was watching somebody search "Mass Effect Legendary Edition Ultrawide Support" while logged in to Google. They repeatedly got nothing but results for Heroes of the Storm, a completely different game which they had been playing a few days earlier. It was the creepiest thing. HotS is not a very popular game. I guarantee that most people searching "$VIDEO_GAME Ultrawide Support" are not looking for HotS info.

Anyway, on Bing and DDG both the first page of results were what I would have expected. Just like they would have been on Google ten years ago.

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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by readams on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:30AM (#28315419)
That query works well for me on Google.
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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by rcoveson on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:51AM (#28315689)
I don't doubt it. I believe it was a results personalization issue. A history of queries related to one game caused it to include that game in all game-related queries. Maybe exacerbated by the heroes:legendary relationship? Who knows. I don't even recognize the Google algorithm year to year anymore. I don't expect to be able to reproduce anything.
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