Having moved country twice I used to get very upset by this.
Now though, I have just given up on google. They seem to have no interest (and no incentive, for lack of un-buy-out-able competition) to improve this. I mean, apart from the occasional vacation, how much of their userbase are really changing location regularly, right? And do those people have any real choice to opt out of using the shitty product anyhow?
They still regularly show me map search results relevant to my place from 8 years ago.
They still randomly switch me to this or that language based on VPN usage or such. Feels like a big middle finger that they haven't even attempted to solve this over the last 10 years or so since I first started noticing this.
At least for search, I have recently switched to Kagi (based on a recommendation from here on HN) and haven't looked back. It's been... *checks mails* Oh, since new year's. Longer than any of my DuckDuckGo streaks.
I honestly didn't expect this to stick, but once Kagi goes out of beta I think I'd subscribe if the price point is right. It's so refreshing to get good search results with no BS. And if something bad creeps in (which happened once so far, a StackOverflow SEO site) I can just block that page from ever showing up in my results again.
So yeah, I use gmail & calendar for work on a separate account, and youtube privately. Apart from that, I avoid their products. Most of my apps on android are from f-droid, I open the play store a couple of times a year. It's just not worth the hassle, and that doesn't even get into the whole privacy & market dominance behaviour.
They still regularly show me map search results relevant to my place from 8 years ago. They still randomly switch me to this or that language based on VPN usage or such. Feels like a big middle finger that they haven't even attempted to solve this over the last 10 years or so since I first started noticing this.
At least for search, I have recently switched to Kagi (based on a recommendation from here on HN) and haven't looked back. It's been... *checks mails* Oh, since new year's. Longer than any of my DuckDuckGo streaks.
I honestly didn't expect this to stick, but once Kagi goes out of beta I think I'd subscribe if the price point is right. It's so refreshing to get good search results with no BS. And if something bad creeps in (which happened once so far, a StackOverflow SEO site) I can just block that page from ever showing up in my results again.
So yeah, I use gmail & calendar for work on a separate account, and youtube privately. Apart from that, I avoid their products. Most of my apps on android are from f-droid, I open the play store a couple of times a year. It's just not worth the hassle, and that doesn't even get into the whole privacy & market dominance behaviour.