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Not for me. That website isn't anywhere on the first page of results.

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Try ublock origin / searching without account then, I'm getting the same result as everyone else

The ads are personalised to you though

Yeah I just vpn'ed to my machine at work and I'm getting results about micropyhton too. But on my personal machine it absolutely thinks I'm interested in buying some generic programming courses and nothing about micropython.

I see exactly the same.

Google provides exactly what you're looking for ..

First result for me too

Maybe you got some Spyware or something interfering with Google queries

Um, no. Google "bubbles" their search results, meaning that they customize them based on their profile of you. This is not new - it's been implemented and known publicly for years.

Right, and what the person above is saying is that spyware/bad extensions can be making random searches which muddy your profile's search data

It is? That's not how I would normally interpret "interfering".

And why should random searches make my results significantly worse than the default? That doesn't exactly absolve google of screwing up.

I'd say the results are bad enough that something is interfering.

Or maybe google tailors what it shows to what it thinks I want to see based on my user profile :P

I love how this is also an example of how well censorship works

People just invalidating each other instead of the third party because a third party creates different experiences

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