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> c) Unsurprisingly, I find DDG's search results good enough. I rarely go to Google, and only when DDG fails me.

Same, my problem is that whenever I search for something that isn't english DDG can't find even the most basic stuff. Aside from that the migration has been pretty painless for me though so I have my hopes up.

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Have you set the localization to whatever language you are searching in? At least for German it has been working well that way IMO

I have no idea how I missed that! For those unaware there's a little toggle just beneath the search bar - and yes, it did improve the results! Thanks!

nice happy to hear that. You're welcome

That has been one reason why I prefer DDG to google since day 1; I can tell it to give me stuff from my region, or just international. Considering I use the internet in english 98% of the time but occasionally need something specific to Germany, that's very useful indeed :D

Google used to have the same feature a long long time ago, in fact I'd have sworn that DDG copied it from google.

Holy crap, missed by me too. It was set correctly but wasn’t turned on. Thanks.

I find myself throwing !g when I want to find a programming specific thing. Not sure this is because Google's results for niche tech sites is better or because I am more familiar with how to craft these as Google queries having used it almost exclusively since 1998.

I would bet part of it is the personalisation of results on google's side, I experience the same.

But do Google get to personalise it when it is a ddg !g search? I thought that went to Google via ddg?

Works fine with Russian. Shows "In partnership with Yandex" badge (Yandex is a major Russian search/email/etc company) in the corner on some searches. Whatever "partnership" means...

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