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The one thing I find really painful is when I want a localized search like searching for "[chain resturant name] grubhub" and I get results half way across the
by sam0x17 8y ago
The one thing I find really painful is when I want a localized search like searching for "[chain resturant name] grubhub" and I get results half way across the country. Other than that it's great.
- mdaniel 8y agoI promise I don't mean this in a snarky way, but: isn't the behavior you're describing almost the exact opposite of not being tracked? Or, put another way: does "[chain name] grubhub [zipcode]" still do what you are describing? Heh, as one might expect, "there's a bang for that" which will save you two characters: https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=grubhub https://duckduckgo.com/bang?q=grubhub
- jumbopapa 8y agoI'm generally OK with a search engine using my IP Address to provide localized results. I don't think that's really a privacy concern as that is exposed to everyone. Maybe I'm wrong in thinking that though?
- sam0x17 8y agoWhat I mean, though, is I wouldn't mind if duckduckgo did localized searches based on IP geolocation. There are no privacy implications for this as long as the results are not logged anywhere.
- Doctor_Fegg 8y agoTry using it outside the US. Then you get results halfway across the world. :( Example: if I search DDG for "Worcester" (a significant city near my home in south-central England), 28 of the top 30 results are Worcester, Massachusetts. There is a toggle at the top of the page where I can choose "United Kingdom". That fixes it. But the default should be "worldwide" or "localised by IP address", not "US".
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- saputeweobo 8y agoMaybe they could add geolocation data to the query if the query contains keywords like "near me" and similar. No user tracking involved.