

Instead, Google Search now uses your location to show you local results, though you can still change your country service in the search engine’s settings. In related news, Google on Friday announced it will no longer use country code domains to localize search results. But those blocks were temporary, likely due to malicious ads found on some pages. Multiple times last year, Google’s Safe Browsing service blocked The Pirate Bay in Chrome, Firefox, and various Google services. Back in September 2012, for example, The Pirate Bay stopped showing up in Google’s Instant and Autocomplete search engine features. This isn’t the first time Google users have noticed odd search results when trying to find The Pirate Bay. A VentureBeat staff member in France, for example, confirmed that The Pirate Bay did not appear for her as the top result: If you try to reproduce this yourself, your mileage will likely vary depending on your location. MetaBeat will bring together thought leaders to give guidance on how metaverse technology will transform the way all industries communicate and do business on October 4 in San Francisco, CA.
