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Because Google tries to display what you're interested in. So if I google Prince Fielder, the suggestions and top results are different from someone in San Francisco who googles Prince Fielder. They might get "stats", "Giants", "Athletics", "Vegetarian". Likewise, if I type in "Egypt Protests", it's going to suggest links that people in my area/demographic/insert-whatever-Google-knows-about-me selected. The results are going to be completely different from someone in the Middle East who googles "Egypt Protests". So Google is creating little localized bubbles and isn't distributing information evenly. There's a Ted Talk on this and some of the dangers. Basically it says it's not a good thing if Google knows everything about us and only displays information that it thinks we want to know. People already have a tendency to want information that reinforces our beliefs and now Google is doing it for us.
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