Re:DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble
by Matt_Cutts on Monday June 20, 2011 @06:39PM
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Interesting. HN isn't ideal for debugging, but if you wanted to send cookies or IP addresses (e.g. via Twitter), I could see if someone could look into it.
Re:DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble
by computermacgyve on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @04:53AM
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Use: http://www.google.com/ncr to disable. NCR=no country redirect. I've set this as my homepage and not had any issues
Re:DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble
by mrspeaker on Tuesday June 21, 2011 @08:16AM
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FANTASTIC TIP! This drives me (and 3 co-workers who will want to buy you a beer) insane - I travel a lot, and use proxies - so google is constantly swapping languages on me.
Though it makes me less worried about them collating all my personal information if they can't figure out I didn't suddenly learn to speak German ;)
Re:DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble
by newman314 on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @10:53PM
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There does not seem to be a way to use Google SSL + NCR. E.g.
https://encrypted.google.com/ncr/search?q=test&qscrl=1
does not seem to be a valid option. Is there a way to pass NCR in a param like ncr=1? Or the fact that Google SSL is used implies use of NCR?
EDIT: It looks like &ncr=1 does work but I'm not sure if this is equivalent to no country redirect.
Right now, this is what I have set up (which also disables personalization)
Re:DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble
by newman314 on Wednesday June 22, 2011 @06:01AM
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Cant easily do this as i am currently in country. Can you shoot me a contact email (mine is HN username @ gmail) and I can send you something when I'm on the road again and can send you cookies/IP
There seems to be no discernible pattern as to why it works in one session, suspend laptop, go somewhere else and it stops working. Or it'll work twice in a row and when I return location a (both in the same foreign country), it stops working.