[Air-L] Personalization of Google results (incl. little pilot study)

[Stephen J Cavrak Jr]

Quoting Marianne van den Boomen <M.V.T.vandenBoomen at uu.nl>:

> I would like to contribute to your research, but when I try to use
> google.com it redirects automatically to google.nl - speaking of
> peronalisation ;-)

The localization can go down to the city level - when I visit friends,  
Google News brings up local news sources, ads, etc.

More interesting is that sometimes it gets confused, and when I get  
back home, the visited city pops up randomly in news stream. Not sure  
if that's a bug or a feature ...

Steve

- I'm reading this today via the Hoard 3.1.9 web email package. It  
also localizes the page with weather forecast, moon phases, and TA DA  
... a small flag icon next to the sender's address - so the flag of  
the Netherlands is displayed by Marianne's name ...