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I disagree. I specifically searched for Salzstiegl ski club, I don’t really care about the language, just return the website I am looking for. Why does Google r

I disagree. I specifically searched for Salzstiegl ski club, I don’t really care about the language, just return the website I am looking for. Why does Google return the correct result first, regardless of language? I also tried setting DDG to “All Regions” and the results were not better.

iso1631 5y ago
By phrasing it that way you're searching in English, it seems a reasonable choice to return sites that are in English. If I search DDG for "US President", the first results are the English Wikipedia page for "President of the United States" and "List of presidents of the united states" If I search for "US-Präsident", I get "Liste der Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten" and "Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten - Wikipedia" from Germany wikipedia, and fairly high up is a link to zeit [0] That Zeit link doesn't appear if I search in English. It seems that DDG puts the language used of the search fairly high in the weighting. That's reasonable to me. If I search "Nicolas Sarkozy im Gefängnis", I get German stories about the French President. I can see both arguments, I don't think differing weights for language is an indictment of a search algorithm specifically though. [0] https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2022-02/joe-biden-us-praesident-russland-ukraine-konflikt?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fduckduckgo.com%2F https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2022-02/joe-biden-us-pra...