in reply to Google "related" search bias?

I don't understand. If I follow the links, I don't see those things.

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Re^2: Google "related" search bias?
by tinita (Parson) on Jan 17, 2007 at 08:41 UTC
    for me it's dependent on the language the browser uses. if i set englisch as the first language i get the "Related to"-links, if i set it to german i don't get the links. =(
Re^2: Google "related" search bias?
by jdporter (Paladin) on Jan 17, 2007 at 04:35 UTC

    You need to scroll to the bottom of the Google search results page, where it says:

    Searches related to: perl

      Odd, that doesn't exist for me.

      Update:

      Odd, that doesn't exist for me in Firefox, but I see it in when I use IE. It's not a rendering issue either. It's not in the source when I use Firefox.

        FYI, FireFox's "view source" doesn't show you the source that was sent, it appears to show you a reconstruction of the source based on what FireFox decided to render. Often the result is quite similar to the former, but the cases when it isn't are also usually the cases when you especially want to "view source" so it is a pretty lame misfeature that bit me several times before I learned to never trust FireFox's "view source".

        Note that FireFox shows me the "Searches related to" stuff so my first guess is that your FireFox has a Google cookie that your IE does not, though I don't see an obvious user preference setting or such that would explain why a cookie would make such a difference.

        - tye        

        Odd. I see it, and I'm using only firefox.