[Nemo]

I got this today:

Ripped off from duckduckgo? Jeez

[tokkun]

I don't have personalized search on. Tino seems to have the same issues as me.

If you're only talking about language-specific issues, I believe that browser language is stored in a different cookie/account setting and not considered part of personalized results. If you believe your results are being personalized in some other way based on your web history, then I'm not sure why that is occurring.

[numble]

If you're only talking about language-specific issues, I believe that browser language is stored in a different cookie/account setting and not considered part of personalized results. If you believe your results are being personalized in some other way based on your web history, then I'm not sure why that is occurring.

It is definitely something in my personal account settings, since I get different results when I sign out--english. So its not based on browser settings. But it's annoying to sign in and out of Gmail and Google Docs for me to avoid this, as well as constantly fussing around in settings for every other search or so.

Going to the trouble of running two instances of a browser would be even more annoying; I'm not sure how to get that to work in OS X anyway. I'd like Google to stop trying to second-guess me, that's it. If I have a history of searching in 3 different languages, they should just return results that correspond to the language I searched in.

[hateradio]

DuckDuckGo would be awesome if it's search results wouldn't be utterly awful http://i.imgur.com/wWRby.png http://i.imgur.com/ClKbu.png

You're supposed to use site:neogaf.com duckduckgo to get results from only neogaf.

[pmj]

I had heard of the practice but this is the first time I hear the term bubbling. Very interesting, and rather worrying. I can't say I've noticed it myself though, possibly because I use Google's English website and never search in my native language.

Google has a verbatim search feature which they claim disables personalized results, but it has the drawback (or benefit, depending on what you're trying to do) of searching exactly for what you wrote, it won't also give you results for similar words.

[Dariee]

I had heard of the practice but this is the first time I hear the term bubbling. Very interesting, and rather worrying. I can't say I've noticed it myself though, possibly because I use Google's English website and never search in my native language.

How is that even possible? Not matter what, if I type Google.com I automatically get redirected to the local version, despite that being the exact thing I often don't want. And no, I don't have any Google-accounts and never set any settings. Can't even change it for as far as I know, for that matter. And cookies get deleted regularly, but still no difference.

Browsed a lot more with Duckduckgo the last couple of days and have to say it often gave me the appropriate search results. Though for images it's definitely lacking and in that case I'm still back at using Google.

[Fuu]

How is that even possible? Not matter what, if I type Google.com I automatically get redirected to the local version, despite that being the exact thing I often don't want. And no, I don't have any Google-accounts and never set any settings. Can't even change it for as far as I know, for that matter. And cookies get deleted regularly, but still no difference. Browsed a lot more with Duckduckgo the last couple of days and have to say it often gave me the appropriate search results. Though for images it's definitely lacking and in that case I'm still back at using Google.

You should see a "Google.com in English" button on the lower right of the main page (next to privacy & terms, etc). After you click that it's supposed to always load the English site by default.

[Dariee]

Thanks a lot!

Though it makes me wonder: how come Google remembers using this national search focus after I deleted all cookies and stuff? Or that it shouldn't load that one anymore since I clicked the button at the low right? Isn't the whole point of deleting all this digital info that Google Chrome doesn't remember what I did and for Google as a search engine to not have any additional data to load when I use it?