Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF?
by AshamedCaptain on Monday June 05, 2023 @11:52AM
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DDG has become ridiculous. They seem to be merging "local", geoIP based results no matter what country I select on the region list (or I disable it). Very often completely unrelated stuff (but local) appears on the 5th or 6th result, midway the first page.
Most egregiously I will search for something very rare (e.g. about programming) and DDG will return me results regarding my city's tourist/visitor info. It's as if it just keeps ignoring words from the search prompt that return no results until it runs out of keywords then it's just the geoIP results.
Re:Google No Longer Automatically Indexes Websites – WTF?
by account42 on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @07:09AM
(#36210925)
I hate this forced localization so much and its everywhere. The internet used to be a place where you would actually encounter stuff outside your locale.
Most egregiously I will search for something very rare (e.g. about programming) and DDG will return me results regarding my city's tourist/visitor info. It's as if it just keeps ignoring words from the search prompt that return no results until it runs out of keywords then it's just the geoIP results.