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I live in the UK and have DDG pointing at the UK. I'm currently in Kenya. Searching for dishwasher on DDG gives Currys, John Lewis, Argos, appliancesdirect, an

I live in the UK and have DDG pointing at the UK. I'm currently in Kenya. Searching for dishwasher on DDG gives Currys, John Lewis, Argos, appliancesdirect, and ao.com. All of those are UK based, exactly what I would expect Searching google.co.uk gives Currys, BestBuy (which gives a choice between CA, US, MX), Lowes (US), Home Depot Canada, Home Depot U.S. DDG is far better When I search for Zoo on DDG, I get IMDB about a TV series, Chester Zoo (UK's most visited), London Zoo, and Wiki about the tv series. On Google.co.uk I get stuff about the TV series, Nairobi national park, and then stuff about Boston USA, Berlin, and Madrid. DDG is far better.

kmlx 8y ago
not in my case. i let google collect everything they can, and the service offered by them is miles ahead of DDG. dishwasher on google brings up argos, john lewis and a bunch of shops near me. on ddg it’s US only. zoo brings up the nearest zoos around me as well as a bunch of other uk zoos. ddg is again US. ddg doesn’t even know my location! and this is, from my understanding, one of the reasons people are using ddg in the first place. and the reason i avoid going ddg. i need context aka state that’s already on their servers; instead of mentioning state each time (i’m in london and searching for vs just searching for)
piyush_soni 8y ago
You have to select the country for it to show the UK results, I already wrote that (that is a kind of personalization, isn't it?). For the Zoo, I'm not sure, does everyone in UK search for and visit only that most visited one and not the one in their vicinity? Then we don't even have remotely same expectations from a Search. Do people also visit the most popular "Laptop repair store" in UK regardless of where they live? Google gives me results in my area, starting from the nearest one - of course, provided it has sufficient information about your City/Zip code etc. Let's not deny that it's extremely useful in abstract (keeping aside privacy based consequences). P.S. : Had DDG been far better, they wouldn't need those Google Bangs that many users praising DDG keep finding themselves going back to.

kmlx 8y ago

not in my case. i let google collect everything they can, and the service offered by them is miles ahead of DDG. dishwasher on google brings up argos, john lewis and a bunch of shops near me. on ddg it’s US only. zoo brings up the nearest zoos around me as well as a bunch of other uk zoos. ddg is again US. ddg doesn’t even know my location! and this is, from my understanding, one of the reasons people are using ddg in the first place. and the reason i avoid going ddg. i need context aka state that’s already on their servers; instead of mentioning state each time (i’m in london and searching for vs just searching for)

piyush_soni 8y ago

You have to select the country for it to show the UK results, I already wrote that (that is a kind of personalization, isn't it?). For the Zoo, I'm not sure, does everyone in UK search for and visit only that most visited one and not the one in their vicinity? Then we don't even have remotely same expectations from a Search. Do people also visit the most popular "Laptop repair store" in UK regardless of where they live? Google gives me results in my area, starting from the nearest one - of course, provided it has sufficient information about your City/Zip code etc. Let's not deny that it's extremely useful in abstract (keeping aside privacy based consequences). P.S. : Had DDG been far better, they wouldn't need those Google Bangs that many users praising DDG keep finding themselves going back to.