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"Google Location: When You Want to Be Nowhere in Particular"

This post was written by Tara Calisham: "Recently Google announced that it was making the location setting more prominent on its Web page. If you look on the left side of a search results page, you'll see that Google is showing you where you are and giving you the option to change that setting. Google, as you probably remember, is now customizing its search results based on your geographic location.

Here's the thing, though: you can't say that you're nowhere.

...Which was annoying to me since many Google searches that I do have nothing to do with location. And being burdened with a location, I wonder what I'm missing, or how badly my search results are being skewed in a way I don't want.

I did find a way to get around this, however..."

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Source: Research Buzz, 27 October 2010. © 2006-2010 ResearchBuzz, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on October 27, 2010 (boomark / email).