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Today I was trying to find info about Corpus Christi - a Polish film that won some awards lately. DDG gives me information about a place in Texas, including stu

Today I was trying to find info about Corpus Christi - a Polish film that won some awards lately. DDG gives me information about a place in Texas, including stuff from the local newspaper and attractions. I'm searching from a Poland IP btw. Anyway, the actual film was at the very end of the first page of results for me. It certainly feels like it priotises things weirdly. Google Maps has a similar issue though: plenty of US placenames are just stolen from European places and oftentimes I'll be trying to get directions to a nearby town and instead it'll navigate to someplace in Alabama instead. Strangely enough, not where I want to go...

mrcu5 7y ago
Did you include the word "film" in your search? Otherwise there's no reasonable expectation for it to show up. It's like searching for "Philadelphia" and expecting the movie to show up and not the city.
- glenneroo 7y ago
  I understand what you're suggesting but for fun I did that search on DDG and the film was the 8th result (on the first page of results ;)
  - scollet 7y ago
    The experiment was a success
weystrom 7y ago
So does Google, "Corpus Christi" is too ambiguous. "Corpus Christi polish film" is good enough. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Corpus+Christi+polish+film&t=ffab&ia=news https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Corpus+Christi+polish+film&t=ffab&... "Corpus Christi film" also works, results look relevant, but knowledge graph shows the old 2014 Venezuelan movie. This is where Google is way superior, it showed me average score on imdb and even local showtimes.
- astine 7y ago
  I imagine that if you were searching from a Polish IP, Google would infer that you meant the movie, not the city. For anyone in the United States, however, I'd expect the city to be the more common search.
ufo 7y ago
Corpus Christi is the name of a major Christian festival and is a holiday in many countries with a large catholic population, including Poland. The city in Texas and the movie are named after it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi
wolco 7y ago
Wait a second. You can't use a privacy themed search engine and expect them to lookup your ip, figure out what city you are in. The entire point of using ddg is to avoid this.
- drivebycomment 7y ago
  DDG does use ip address to locate you.
- Doctor_Fegg 7y ago
  It already knows I’m in the UK from my IP address. I get a UK toggle at the top of the page.

mrcu5 7y ago

Did you include the word "film" in your search? Otherwise there's no reasonable expectation for it to show up. It's like searching for "Philadelphia" and expecting the movie to show up and not the city.

glenneroo 7y ago
I understand what you're suggesting but for fun I did that search on DDG and the film was the 8th result (on the first page of results ;)
- scollet 7y ago
  The experiment was a success

weystrom 7y ago

So does Google, "Corpus Christi" is too ambiguous. "Corpus Christi polish film" is good enough. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Corpus+Christi+polish+film&t=ffab&ia=news https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Corpus+Christi+polish+film&t=ffab&... "Corpus Christi film" also works, results look relevant, but knowledge graph shows the old 2014 Venezuelan movie. This is where Google is way superior, it showed me average score on imdb and even local showtimes.

astine 7y ago
I imagine that if you were searching from a Polish IP, Google would infer that you meant the movie, not the city. For anyone in the United States, however, I'd expect the city to be the more common search.

ufo 7y ago

Corpus Christi is the name of a major Christian festival and is a holiday in many countries with a large catholic population, including Poland. The city in Texas and the movie are named after it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Corpus_Christi

wolco 7y ago

Wait a second. You can't use a privacy themed search engine and expect them to lookup your ip, figure out what city you are in. The entire point of using ddg is to avoid this.

drivebycomment 7y ago
DDG does use ip address to locate you.
Doctor_Fegg 7y ago
It already knows I’m in the UK from my IP address. I get a UK toggle at the top of the page.