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>What's wrong with DDG and local searches Maybe its different in the US or just not optimised in Germany, but the quality of search results isn't comparable.

>What's wrong with DDG and local searches Maybe its different in the US or just not optimised in Germany, but the quality of search results isn't comparable. Query: "All you can eat Kiel" Google: 1. a map with the top three restaurants for this context in the foreground 2: a list of restaurants, sortable by price/date/hours 3 to end of page: links to homepages of the top restaurants DDG: 1. a completely random assortment of irrelevant links on the left 2. a semantic web box with a 3/5 rated irrelevant restaurant on the right 3. wild youtube-videos vaguely related to the query between text results 4. images 5. more wild links that kind of thing. And Kiel isn't a small city, we even had DDG print ads here.

cassianoleal 3y ago
I'm not in the US. :) When I try your query I only get a bunch of local German stuff (including a map with restaurants). I admit, I don't even know what Kiel is so I can't validate the results but despite them being in Germany (and my search having had the country selector set to UK), it looks pretty good. If I search something more generic like "all you can eat sushi" I get a neat map with a few restaurants that do that, plus a bunch of TripAdvisor and other directory and blog posts exactly about that, all local. If I try your query again, setting the country to Germany, I get https://yummy-kiel.de/ https://yummy-kiel.de/ as the first result, a map with top-three restaurants as the second, and again, a bunch of directories and blogs with all you can eat Kiel. Seems pretty good to me.
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allarm 3y ago
With all respect, there’s not a lot of restaurants around here ) comparing to i.e. Hamburg. A couple of steak houses, some locals, 4-5 asian food and the Brunswik, which is always busy. There’s also Kiellinie, but it’s mostly a seasonal thing. Though there’s a lot of folks around sipping cocktails with ice in winter, crazy. Love this city.

cassianoleal 3y ago

I'm not in the US. :) When I try your query I only get a bunch of local German stuff (including a map with restaurants). I admit, I don't even know what Kiel is so I can't validate the results but despite them being in Germany (and my search having had the country selector set to UK), it looks pretty good. If I search something more generic like "all you can eat sushi" I get a neat map with a few restaurants that do that, plus a bunch of TripAdvisor and other directory and blog posts exactly about that, all local. If I try your query again, setting the country to Germany, I get https://yummy-kiel.de/ https://yummy-kiel.de/ as the first result, a map with top-three restaurants as the second, and again, a bunch of directories and blogs with all you can eat Kiel. Seems pretty good to me.

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allarm 3y ago

With all respect, there’s not a lot of restaurants around here ) comparing to i.e. Hamburg. A couple of steak houses, some locals, 4-5 asian food and the Brunswik, which is always busy. There’s also Kiellinie, but it’s mostly a seasonal thing. Though there’s a lot of folks around sipping cocktails with ice in winter, crazy. Love this city.