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Manually changing region to Russia gives many more results. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=VK&kl=ru-ru&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=VK&kl=ru-ru&ia

by ffpip 6y ago

Manually changing region to Russia gives many more results. https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=VK&kl=ru-ru&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=VK&kl=ru-ru&ia=web Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia? Because they use Yandex in Russia. https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/a7nl1v/duckduckgos_relationship_to_yandex/ec50ai7?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/duckduckgo/comments/a7nl1v/duckduck...

slezyr 6y ago
I don't think this is it. VK has an english version as well. I've seen it being used by the English-speaking people.
- ffpip 6y ago
  Yes. It definitely has more than 100 million users. It might be a Yandex partnership to not show outside Russia
bhrgunatha 6y ago
> Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia? Quite the opposite. My search results from DDG over the past year or so have been infested with Russian sites, articles and even twitter account titles of English language accounts, despite not living there and not having any preference for Russian in any browsers settings or regions and never issuing a single query in Russian.
- s0l1dsnak3123 6y ago
  "infested" is a little much, don't you think? I can sympathise with frustration on having results that don't match your language preferences, but "infested"? Come on.
  - vmception 6y ago
    Russia only bad. It's a generational thing.
    - outworlder 6y ago
      By 'generational', you mean "spanning multiple generations"?
      - delaaxe 6y ago
        More like, “that pertains to a given generation”
        meowface 6y ago
        I think the parent was retorting that anti-Russia sentiment in the US spans multiple generations.
        stephenr 6y ago
        Not if you’re a republican apparently.
        pjc50 6y ago
        They're only against Communism. Russians with money are just fine, apparently. The logical conclusion of "money is speech" is that foreign intelligence agencies can buy as much speech as they like.
        vmception 6y ago
        Protip: its not just Russians playing around with sentiment in other countries for their own gains, and it is extremely easy to deflect all attention towards Russia. It can be long time allies that you harbor the least feelings about.
        6y ago
  - samatman 6y ago
    I understand the discomfort, but people have been describing a page of bad search results as "infested" for a long time. Perhaps it was intended as a slight against Russians, but I'd ask you to assume good faith.
- solarkraft 6y ago
  Google searches also often yield Russian sites for me, mostly what appears to be StackOverflow translations.
Reason077 6y ago
> "Manually changing region to Russia gives many more results." This probably explains it: DuckDuckGo indexes different languages together in one big index internally(?). "VK" returns many results in Russian, filling some maximum number of results. And then a filter just removes all the Russian ones if you're searching from a non-Russian locale?
nemetroid 6y ago
Searching for ”vk” should return a lot of things beside the Russian social network. Vodka Kick, Vulkan, Voight-Kampff, Västerbottens-kuriren, etc. etc. I don’t think this is intentional.

by ffpip 6y ago

slezyr 6y ago

I don't think this is it. VK has an english version as well. I've seen it being used by the English-speaking people.

ffpip 6y ago
Yes. It definitely has more than 100 million users. It might be a Yandex partnership to not show outside Russia

bhrgunatha 6y ago

> Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia? Quite the opposite. My search results from DDG over the past year or so have been infested with Russian sites, articles and even twitter account titles of English language accounts, despite not living there and not having any preference for Russian in any browsers settings or regions and never issuing a single query in Russian.

s0l1dsnak3123 6y ago
"infested" is a little much, don't you think? I can sympathise with frustration on having results that don't match your language preferences, but "infested"? Come on.
- vmception 6y ago
  Russia only bad. It's a generational thing.
  - outworlder 6y ago
    By 'generational', you mean "spanning multiple generations"?
    - delaaxe 6y ago
      More like, “that pertains to a given generation”
      - meowface 6y ago
        I think the parent was retorting that anti-Russia sentiment in the US spans multiple generations.
        stephenr 6y ago
        Not if you’re a republican apparently.
        pjc50 6y ago
        They're only against Communism. Russians with money are just fine, apparently. The logical conclusion of "money is speech" is that foreign intelligence agencies can buy as much speech as they like.
        vmception 6y ago
        Protip: its not just Russians playing around with sentiment in other countries for their own gains, and it is extremely easy to deflect all attention towards Russia. It can be long time allies that you harbor the least feelings about.
        6y ago
- samatman 6y ago
  I understand the discomfort, but people have been describing a page of bad search results as "infested" for a long time. Perhaps it was intended as a slight against Russians, but I'd ask you to assume good faith.
solarkraft 6y ago
Google searches also often yield Russian sites for me, mostly what appears to be StackOverflow translations.

Reason077 6y ago

> "Manually changing region to Russia gives many more results." This probably explains it: DuckDuckGo indexes different languages together in one big index internally(?). "VK" returns many results in Russian, filling some maximum number of results. And then a filter just removes all the Russian ones if you're searching from a non-Russian locale?

nemetroid 6y ago

Searching for ”vk” should return a lot of things beside the Russian social network. Vodka Kick, Vulkan, Voight-Kampff, Västerbottens-kuriren, etc. etc. I don’t think this is intentional.