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Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by avinium on Thursday January 17, 2019 @06:23PM (#18935631)
FWIW, I do recall DDG regularly giving me results for Melbourne, Florida (when I actually want Melbourne, Australia).

E.g. if I search for <a href='https://duckduckgo.com/?q=melbourne+restaurant&t=ffab&atb=v1... Restaurant"</a>, the first result is FL.

"Melbourne Indian Restaurant" is a bit better, but half of the front page results are still FL.

"Melbourne weather" always used to return FL, but that looks like its been fixed.

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Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by aembleton on Thursday January 17, 2019 @07:19PM (#18935939)
Interesting, where are you searching from?

This is what I see when searching from the UK: https://i.imgur.com/XIxo4Jx.png

Quite clearly Melbourne, Australia. Maybe if you're in Florida it'll bias towards there.

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Re:Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway by avinium on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:13PM (#18984202)
Searching from Melbourne, Australia.

Screenshot here:

https://imagebin.ca/v/4UYChGqqIEQy

(The ad is geolocating correctly, but the first actual search result is "Melbourne Brevard County Florida")

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