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I get none of the same results as my top hit?


That's google's personalisation. I like freaking ppl out when I just ask them to google a famous politician's name and compare the results. Some times they get similar results on WiFi and very different on mobile data afterwards.

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Any idea why this happens? I don't understand why WiFi vs. mobile data would impact how they want to personalize the results.


Because of IP correlation AFAIK. But tbh not quite sure it's just something I've noticed.


The number of results can also vary wildly.


Depends on the region google is set too. You will find varying results based on your location.


I get none of the same results as my top hit?

Google spends billions of dollars a year to give everyone their own personalized set of bad search results.

That's the justification for its invasive tracking.

Google: "We to build a dossier about you, your life, your friends, and your family members in order to give you better results!"

Us: "So... they could be worse?"




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