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Re:I think DuckDuckGo would do better changing that Quack of... by mbq on Friday November 23, 2012 @04:51AM (#4821616)
My biggest problem with DDG is that it is so English-centric. I know they have those "regions", but the results from them are much worse than from US region and a need to switch them via settings page every time I change the search language is an unacceptable hassle.
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Re:I think DuckDuckGo would do better changing that Quack of... by crazedpsyc on Friday November 23, 2012 @11:55AM (#4822802)
You can type "r:xx" in your query to set the region, in any case. (e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bonjour+r%3Afr )
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Re:I think DuckDuckGo would do better changing that Quack of... by mbq on Saturday November 24, 2012 @03:36PM (#4826378)
I do, like, 40% of searches in my language, so it is still a lot of work. Anyway, language recognition is actually pretty easy nowadays, especially with the amount of data DDG has from crawling -- if they care about foreigners of course.
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