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I must admit I have grown weary of appending “the country” to every Google search I make related to Georgia.

Also, for a long time, searching Google for “London bridge” returned an incorrectly labelled photo of Tower Bridge as its top result.

Genius.



To be fair, most people think the tower bridge is the London Bridge, not just a London bridge.


Well yes, but surely Google showing the wrong information is not helping. I can understand if the argument is that Google is trying to show what the user intended, and they had correctly surmised that the user is wrong. They do a good job of this with misspellings. Perhaps they ought to do something similar in this case too?

[user Googles ‘London bridge’]

Google: Showing results for Tower Bridge (click here to instead only show results for London Bridge).




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