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    {
        "text": "Earlier, I had posted an image (in another subreddit) but received negative commentary.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "One person even suggested that I'd actually searched for 'New South Wales' and then changed the search bar.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Why would I fabricate something? I'm bluntly honest, not a liar. I hate liars.",
        "extra_info": ""
    },
    {
        "text": "Hence, I've deleted the original post and reposted here with a video instead, to dispel that stupid theory.",
        "extra_info": ""
    },
    {
        "text": "I know that it's a combination of both the browser AND search engine, as I tested using other search engines and browsers and only in certain scenarios could I replicate the results.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "I'm not naming which browser or search engines to avoid giving them free publicity.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Here's the original details from my original post:",
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    },
    {
        "text": "I did a quick search for 'South American landmarks', using a popular search engine that doesn't start with 'G' (in conjuction with a less popular browser).",
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    },
    {
        "text": "The immediate search results are in Sydney and surrounding areas of NSW.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Given that almost all contemporary school students use the Internet as a learning resource and millions of others seem to now rely on it for information, getting such a simple search result wrong shows how even technology can provide serious misinformation.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Imagine some 11 year old student doing the same search for a Geography project and getting no marks because of the information being incorrect.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Most people would take top search results as gospel.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "If it was someone overseas, the error could be a sneaky way to boost our tourism and economy, though it is still technically very misleading.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "(To be fair, I wouldn't necessarily blame the search engine totally but rather the browser, which I won't name but was once highly-rated and I was able to reproduce the result after various adjustments.)",
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    },
    {
        "text": "I also note that I capitalised the words 'South American' as a proper noun but the search engine/browser combined kept removing the capital 'A' from 'American'.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "How did technology get it wrong?",
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    },
    {
        "text": "The closest point of South America is over 9000km away from Sydney CBD and the furtherest point is over 15,000km away.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Could it be that the technology confused '***S***outh ***A***merican' with '***S***ydney, ***A***ustralia'? Who knows?",
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    },
    {
        "text": "I guess it's still a bit of a laugh how technology got it wrong and humans are still necessary.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Not since Gondwanaland broke up, to my understanding. That was the closest we’ve ever been to South America.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Probably a mix up with results from New Australia, which is indeed in South America (Paraguay).",
        "extra_info": ""
    },
    {
        "text": "https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Australia",
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    },
    {
        "text": "I've got one everyone can try, search for plumber Western NSW. tell me how many plumbers come up west of the newel.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Happens to me all the time. Results from Australia is always favoured. So sometimes I have used the respective country google link to get accurate results. eg google.co.uk",
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    },
    {
        "text": "You didn't get the memo?",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Definitely wasn't any technology back then.",
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    },
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    },
    {
        "text": "Yep, only shows results the east side of the Blue Mountains, primarily in South West and North West Sydney.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Definitely not showing anything remotely near Broken Hill, Wilcannia or Cobar.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Forget about even the Newell. By the time I got to the fifth page of results, the furtherest plumber it showed me was in Springwood.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "Results seemed to focus on Western Sydney, like the AI disregarded NSW and used the capital city as the starting point.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "In those five pages, I got results for plumbing jobs with NSW Government, TAFE NSW plumbing courses, plumbing awards at Fair Work and NSW Fair Trading information for plumbers.",
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    },
    {
        "text": "So to answer the original question: zilch.",
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