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This has been coming up a lot in this thread and seems to be one of those bug vs feature situations. - Google sees you are speaking French and that you are loc

This has been coming up a lot in this thread and seems to be one of those bug vs feature situations. - Google sees you are speaking French and that you are located in Canada so they assume you want results from Quebec. - DDG sees you selected France, so you get French results. Google uses context/history/etc whereas DDG ignores all of that. From a privacy perspective DDG's less localized default results are a feature, and in your situation they are actually better results, but there are people in this thread who have run into issues where DDG just assumes US for any queries in English, or where switching location gives bad results for programing stuff. It's interesting seeing people's different reactions to this.

cmehdy 6y ago
It is a difference in features indeed, and I believe the region settings can also be found when using google - they're just 2-3 clicks away in a menu and force you to reload, where DDG has them right on the homepage. Basically Google assumes that I want stuff that is tied to my region regardless of who I am or what I do to hide/block any history tracking or browser fingerprinting. That has its own logic, and really for the average en-US user that works well enough anyway. The user expectation becomes a bit different if you're British living in the US or Australia, or if you're Spanish living in Argentina, or if you're French living in Canada, etc. Or if you need to find help about a product that isn't dominated by the US, a programming language that isn't developed in English first, etc etc. Probably not the bulk of the requests from Google's perspective, I guess.