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I think there might be a deeper problem. One reason to use DuckDuckGo is to avoid the tracking and data collection that google does. But if that data collection

I think there might be a deeper problem. One reason to use DuckDuckGo is to avoid the tracking and data collection that google does. But if that data collection allows Google to provide better search results, e.g. localised results tailored for the user, there is no way for DDG to compete (on search results at least).

DanBC 11y ago
People can't add their location in the search terms?
- trymas 11y ago
  Well lazy users (including myself) do not want to always add some text for their country/language/city. Basically, everyone not from US would need to add their location.
  - xomateix 11y ago
    You don't need to, you can activate the region button on the top right [0]. It's not the same as Google, but it's good enough in many cases. [0] https://duck.co/help/settings/regions https://duck.co/help/settings/regions
    - trymas 11y ago
      Yes, I do know about that but it still fails. E.g. I live in country `x` and set my region correctly. I search for `foobarbaz` which is some thing in my country. Though in country `y` there's also a thing called `foobarbaz` and apparently this thing in country `y` is either much more popular of that country is much bigger, so I can't find `foobarbaz` in my country, or I must look deeper into other pages. Google now works so good, that I do not need to scroll for 9 times out of 10 and almost never go to other pages, whereas with DDG probably 1/3 of local searches ended up in looking in other pages.
      - AdamSC1 11y ago
        Hi Trymas, Feel free to forward this case to me at adam@duckduckgo.com and I can log it internally. The region toggle has gotten pretty good but we understand there will be fringe cases that need to be looked into - and small cases like this getting fixed can help positively impact the entire system!