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Re:The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Googl... by Semaphor on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:04AM (#26383281)
Great for non-english results for me, I simply search with !ddgde which flips the "Germany"-switch to on.

You and others keep saying this, but you really need to mention which non-English languages you are talking about as at least some of them are pretty good.

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Re:The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Googl... by lawl on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:23AM (#26383369)
Ok, but google just works for me if i type english or german queries. DDG doesn't.

I've been using ddg as a default engine and wasn't aware of this. (also !ddgde is a lot more to type than !g)

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Re:The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Googl... by Semaphor on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:57AM (#26383957)
They show a switch for me even when I search in English.

With google, I sometimes wish I had an easy switch like that when the terms are also available in English as currently this makes their results useless.

!ddgde is indeed a bit long, but as most of my searches are not local, I can live with it ;)

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Re:The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Googl... by oezi on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:48AM (#26383509)
Completely opposite experience: German Google brings up so much irrelevant things when searching in English.
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Re:The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Googl... by rjzzleep on Monday March 08, 2021 @03:31AM (#26383421)
Chinese? Japanese? Probably a huge amount of LTR languages?

It's not "You and others keep saying this... provide some examples".

It's that you have a tiny scope of what you consider to be the world.

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Re:The new Google Pay repeats all the same mistakes of Googl... by Semaphor on Monday March 08, 2021 @04:55AM (#26383940)
> It's that you have a tiny scope of what you consider to be the world.

No, that’s something you put into my mouth.

This is why I was asking. Unlike others, I explained which language works great. "Doesn’t work" is useless without saying what it doesn’t work for. "Does/Doesn’t work for language X" is actually relevant information.

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