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0 pointsorwin7y ago0 comments

If you're not a native english speaker working in tech, google will sometime show you (in my case) French forums or websites even if the query was entirely written in english. It is quite annoying, and i often get better results using ddg and !g than using google itself.

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reaperducer7y ago

I have a similar problem sometimes.

When I'm in Japan, Google seems to try hard to give me results localized to Japan.

When I'm in the United States and need to get information about something in Japan, it can't cope with the fact that I'm not in Japan. Where Google thinks I am (even with location tracking turned off) is paramount. Even if I search google.co.jp, I get American results.

bad_user7y ago

I have the opposite problem.

I'm Romanian and when searching in Romanian on DuckDuckGo I often get results in English, Spanish, Italian or French, because Romanian is a romance language.

Local searches are terrible on DDG.

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