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Not surprising. I also migrated after ixquick/startpage started their aggressive monetisation efforts earlier this year. Frankly, the results are bad. Always h
by beebeepka 5y ago
Not surprising. I also migrated after ixquick/startpage started their aggressive monetisation efforts earlier this year.
Frankly, the results are bad. Always have been for me. If it's still powered by bing, that would explain it because it assumes everyone is somewhere in North America. Still beats having to deal with Google, though
- Xevi 5y agoI use it on my phone as my default browser. There's a toggle on the search page to switch between US and local search results. Doesn't that work for you?
- CurrentB 5y agoI agree the results are bad unfortunately. I really do want to like duck duck go. I want to get away from Google and am still in the middle of a full switch to ddg, but I don't know how much longer I can last. The problem is even if 90% of the time the results are good enough on ddg, wondering if I'm missing out on a better result causes me to do a !g google search almost every time I'm searching for something non trivial. And doing two searches for each query gets old after a while.
- amelius 5y agoThis is why DDG should include a "!g"-button at the bottom of their first results page. I'll switch to DDG as soon as they have it.
- cassianoleal 5y ago> it assumes everyone is somewhere in North America It really doesn't. The country selector is right below the tabs (All, Images, Videos, etc). Click the toggle and select a country.
- authed 5y agomost other major sites do this automatically...
- cassianoleal 5y agoFair enough. I like having explicit control over that but I don't expect everyone to have the same preference. That said, if your browser keeps cookies, that preference is saved so it's really something you need to do once.
- Gualdrapo 5y agoWhich (at least in my case) does little to nothing at all. With Google, that country selector _used to_ return websites located in the specified country (now not so much), but with ddg those results are mixed up with sites from nearby countries or countries that speak the same language.
- cassianoleal 5y agoI find it very good and useful, actually. In my experience it's way better than Google's supposed auto-localisation.