I tried "typescript playground" and thought you were full of it because all of the results were relevant.

Then I tried "ts playground". Woof. That is a big no-go!

I definitely recommend being specific and explicit (in your phrasing...) with ddg still.

Only if you have the "Safe Search"-Option set to "moderate" (default) or below. If you set it to strict, typescript appears as the second result for me, without porn (but still a few links that I wouldn't want to click).

For me first page of Google results were about typescript (except for one imdb entry) in both normal & private mode, but image & video search had nothing to do with typescript. Safe search was off.

Location probably plays a part in the normal search.

Yes. From France the first link is about typescript, then porn all the way

It is funny how do many people jumped on the search "for research" and proudly report back on the typescript vs porn ratio.

Get to peer a little deeper

Same for me. There's the benefit of user tracking, I guess. I definitely Google for docs frequently so it makes sense to tailor the results for the language.

Unless Google is noticing my IP and doing user tracking in Firefox Private tabs, it's not user tracking. It's just understanding the query better.