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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by FabHK on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:59AM (#22118032)
Well, as DDG doesn't track you, you'll have to provide it a bit more context, such as the city you'd like to conduct the search for (or language or country), either in the search query itself, or using the switch displayed conveniently on top of every page of search results. I don't find that too onerous.

Conversely, I find it annoying when Google gives me Swedish results, just because my VPN happens to route through Uppsala today.

I've searched for books, bars, restaurants, opera, and plenty more in many countries (with VPN routed to plenty of other countries) in the last several years on DDG without any issues, and with no need to switch to other search engines.

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Re:DuckDuckGo Traffic by mattmanser on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @04:17PM (#22122151)
I already explained the switch doesn't work.

While you might enjoy fiddling with your search engine every single time you want to do a location search, the vast majority of users don't and won't.

They've got to solve the problem of location searches if they want to move from being a fiddly niche product to a mainstream Google competitor.

I want them to because I would like to see them have wide spread adoption.

As well as change the stupid name.

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