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If only DDG was any good at local results.

• mimsee 5y ago
  Yeah, I guess. I wonder if there was a private way for DDG to implement that.
  • ForHackernews 5y ago
    It works pretty well for me to just include <name of town> in my search query if I want local results.
    • AlotOfReading 5y ago
      That fails without personalization. Take the example of Dublin. My IP is in Europe, but DDG returns a bunch of results about Dublin, Ohio when I look for "Dublin McDonald's" before eventually linking McDonald's Ireland. Imagine how bad it'd be in Dublin or Pittsburgh, CA or worse, large cities that share a name like San Jose or Ontario.
      • boomboomsubban 5y ago
        Try "Dublin ie McDonald's".
        • AlotOfReading 5y ago
          That still doesn't resolve the ambiguity of Ontario, which is in both California (CA) and Canada (CA). Moreover, the search is getting a bit unwieldy. The point wasn't to illustrate that there's no way to produce the information without personalization, it's to illustrate that search queries can become much more relevant and straightforward with it in particular, common scenarios.
          • boomboomsubban 5y ago
            >That still doesn't resolve the ambiguity of Ontario, which is in both California (CA) and Canada (CA). Moreover, the search is getting a bit unwieldy "ON" or "CAN." And adding 2-4 letters is hardly unwieldy.
• mda 5y ago
  Well, maybe Bing team is reading the complaints and improve stuff a little for ddg users.