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Re:Spellfucker by odabaxok on Friday April 28, 2017 @06:57AM (#14218379)
Sorry this might be OT, but I found it interesting that the 3rd result for you is the lyrics and for me it is something completely different (Lionel is just the tenth result). I thought Duckduckgo returns the same results for everyone and that the results are not personalized. Does someone know what kind of personalization does Duckduckgo use? In settings, region and language can be selected, but I have it set to 'All Region' and 'Browser preferred' which is en-US. Does Duckduckgo after all track me and this way customizes the results? Or am I missing something here?
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Re:Spellfucker by jakobegger on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:25AM (#14218512)
It's probably just the region/language settings.

Set region to Austria, and Ritchie is result nr 1. set Region to "All Regions" and he's result nr 10.

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Re:Spellfucker by odabaxok on Friday April 28, 2017 @08:39AM (#14218889)
That seems reassuring. I think I have panicked too soon.
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Re:Spellfucker by plcancel on Friday April 28, 2017 @07:32AM (#14218547)
Interesting. Yes, number 10 for me (All regions; Browser preferred lang.) The Instant Answer (IA) is lyrics to "Inside Out" by Eve 6.
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