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I’ve noticed same. Google ”amusement parks italy”, get a list of world-famous parks (such as Central Park NY).


the searches results aren't the same, you are fingerprinted

its been this way for years now, at least in how it drastically alters search results for different users in the same country speaking the same language


For me every single result was quality articles or Wikipedia listing amusement parks in Italy.

I'm in Paris

I don't click on trash sites ever. Not sure what else might bias your results.

Try creating a new chrome profile and searching.


ddg gives me:

Amusement parks in Italy, top 5 fun parks you have to visit

20 of Italy's best amusement parks - TravelMag

THE 10 BEST Water & Amusement Parks in Italy - Tripadvisor

10 Best Theme Parks in Italy - Find the best Amusement ...

Family amusement in Italy: 15 excellent parks - Italy ...

Gardaland | The biggest amusement park in Italy

Amusement Park Emilia Romagna Italy | Mirabilandia

The 5 Best Theme Parks in Italy: Italy Logue

THE 10 BEST Water & Amusement Parks in Tuscany - Tripadvisor

Category:Amusement parks in Italy - Wikipedia

Not great, but seems reasonable. Google gives similar answers to be fair.


Huh. My first result is pretty darn helpful and relevant:

https://public.kulak.us/google-search.png


I get mostly the same as the first result.


Not quite as big of an offender, but when I was looking up "Nice Restaurants" with google maps fixed on my city, it instead started looking up Restaurants in Nice, France.


And as someone who lives in Nice, you can imagine how much of a pain it is to look for local venues or services when google thinks its an adjective.


I get extremely relevant results from Google for "amusement parks italy". I use a privacy proxy (VPN) and a browser in privacy mode. Perhaps Google only switches into guess-what-you-meant mode when it can link your search to their profile of you?


Current location bias?

There used to be a way to turn of location priority in advanced search.


I only got sites about amusement parks in italy.




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