20 things that google thinks you should know

God Bless America!
 
Some seem to be inspired by The Simpsons.
 
Now I'm concerned
 
Keith W said:
... based on your own search history
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^^ 'tis true.

You'll get differing results based on your own search history.

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I've recently been browsing for mortgage alternatives and fibre broadband providers.

Whoever made that screenshot in the OP must have had a fairly interesting search history of their own.
 
Pookeyhead said:
^^ 'tis true.
You'll get differing results based on your own search history.
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I've recently been browsing for mortgage alternatives and fibre broadband providers.
Whoever made that screenshot in the OP must have had a fairly interesting search history of their own.
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I got exactly the same results on my work computer - and I've never used it to look at mortgages or broadband.

I think it's more sophisticated than just search history - they use your search history (and which links you followed) to build a demographic picture of you, which then feeds back into the adverts and search results.
 
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Llamaman said:
I got exactly the same results on my work computer - and I've never used it to look at mortgages or broadband.

I think it's more sophisticated than just search history - they use your search history (and which links you followed) to build a demographic picture of you, which then feeds back into the adverts and search results.
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Ah but that is because you just saw it here first ;) it's clever like that.
 
Llamaman said:
I got exactly the same results on my work computer - and I've never used it to look at mortgages or broadband.

I think it's more sophisticated than just search history - they use your search history (and which links you followed) to build a demographic picture of you, which then feeds back into the adverts and search results.
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So it's actually worse than I feared then.
 
:thinking: The suggested results have to be related both to links followed and the most common searches conducted by people after following those links.

If I type "Is it normal to eat . . . " the first result that now comes up for me is question #2.
I can promise you that I've never felt the need to ask the internet whether eating menstrual blood is normal or not :puke:
 
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