In the past i have seen posts about google ranking sites by region. So for example if i was in UK and i searched for Fashion Jewelry they would/could show results for websites based in the UK. I presumed they would do this by recognising the computers IP address.
Yesterday, however I noticed something which i have not seen before and wanted to get some clarity on the issue. I did a search on Google for Fashion Jewelry on my home computer and our website
Body Jewelry shopping, wholesale fashion jewelry, silver jewellery, costume jewellery factory Bangkok Thailand appeared on the first page at position 10 with mainly .com sites or USA sites. My partner doing the same search in Bangkok also about 2 miles away had totally different results and the site was listed on page 4. When i asked what was showing in his results most of the sites were .co.uk sites. He has been looking through a number of UK websites recently and therefore I came to the conclusion that google is looking at what/where we are searching and then returning the results based on that.
Another example i have noticed is for Google Product Search. We have been setting up a CSV file for google product search recently to submit all our products to it and therefore I have spent quite a bit of time in and out of Google Products. Now when i do any normal search in google not using google product base I get a short list of 3 products results at the top of my results page from google shopping (products). My friend who hasnt been checking or searching in google products previously doing the same search on his computer does not have the results showing 3 product results from google shopping at the top of the page.
Is google therefore starting to track everything we do and starting to be a bit clever and list what they think we are looking for? The reason i say smart is because my friend although he has recently been searching UK companies he doesnt want the results always to be dominantly UK results. Can he stop it?