Re:DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Andro...
by toadi on Monday January 13, 2020 @01:52AM
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I live in Thailand and always get the Thai links first. Hate it because can't read Thai.
Re:DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Andro...
by dessant on Monday January 13, 2020 @03:20AM
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I'm in a similar situation, so I wrote a small extension that adds a new Google Search provider to the browser with US locale.
https://github.com/dessant/search-google-us
You could also search by visiting Google using this URL: https://www.google.com?gl=us&hl=en&gws_rd=cr
Re:DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Andro...
by input_sh on Monday January 13, 2020 @02:56AM
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Shouldn't that change when you switch your region to "all regions" at the top of any results page?
That's my assumption at least, since my country isn't available as a region.
Re:DuckDuckGo Is Now a Default Search Engine Option on Andro...
by therealmarv on Monday January 13, 2020 @08:14AM
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Oh that is another issue on Google. The local bubble is sometimes too much in Google and hard to escape. The problem is most people don't realize that!
I moved between countries in the recent years and also changed language in the OS from German to English (seems that is one switch of many) and suddenly many search results changed.
I'm kind of ambivalent about the privacy of DDG vs Bing (maybe I shouldn't be, but since I use DDG anyway, I haven't done the research) - I simply prefer the UI of DDG over Bing.
> I don't like bing search results, especially for Europe. They are just bad for many local things.
I wish Google was less aggressively local. I pretty regularly search for things on Google where I'm looking for the global/most well-known instance, and Google directs me to weird local results that I've never heard of and don't care about.