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I’ve been using duckduckgo for the last month and change and I’m not really a fan. Especially for things here in Japan, it can give really wonky results (today I was looking for the closest post office and searched ‘\ post office’. It gave me a website to get directions, but no indication of where it might be nor, y’know, even the post office’s website). Google has gotten continually worse for me, but this was, in most cases, just barely as good or worse.

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It’s been my default for years. Usually I find what I want. When I don’t, I go back to the search box and put !g at the front, which sends the search to google.

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!sp (Startpage) gives you the same results as Google but without personalized ads or ad tracking.

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3 points

!s is actually enough

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To confirm, are you also toggling the Japan region for searches?

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I didn’t notice that was a thing, but it defaulted to Japan so we’re safe there.

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