Google suggest fails on Google philosophy

Google just introduced their Google suggest feature on all search engines. Although I find this feature helpful and promising, it doesn’t follow their philosophy:

1) Best locally relevant results served globally.

I tried some keyword searches and noticed how often Google suggest tries to give you local results. Almost each (local) search will give you suggestions with geomodifiers (locations).
Now here’s the screenshot:

Local suggestions

So why do I think it fails? Well, imagine this. I’m living in Barcelona at the moment, I am using Google Netherlands and it serves me with local relevant results which seem to be all in the United States except for London. Despite all the effort Google puts in providing cool geolocation APIs for developers and even determining your own location on a map, they didn’t think of using this same feature to improve their Google suggest feature? Why do you think Google made this decision? Do you think they will implement this in the future?

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August 27, 2008 · Filed Under Local Search

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2 Responses to “Google suggest fails on Google philosophy”

  1. Ani López on August 27th, 2008 1:31 am

    somebody forgot uncomment some code lines, the ones saying “get the user’s location first”

  2. Loup on August 27th, 2008 7:23 pm

    Depending on the suggestions I think it will have some major impacts on SEO work, especially in metas.
    If google is suggesting things like “hotels to stay in in London” then it may mean SEOers will have to begin targeting the google prepop suggestions as well as keywords found via other applications.

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