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Is anyone else bothered by Figure 8, where the researcher assumes that seraches of "Nigeria" would auto-produce "Nigeria Scam"....which is not always the case, due to google personalizing seraches, (eg. if you search nigeria scams for information, you will likely autoproduce that as an auto-complete) "Figure 8: Google search offering “Nigerian Scam” as an auto-complete suggestions for the string “Nigeria”. " As per caption

Ultimatly the figure isn't a big deal.....idk, maybe i'm wrong..




I believe tailoring search results was not as much of a factor in 2012 when the article was written.




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