[dotch]

Mozilla cares about good user experience more than money and sometimes even more than self interest and principles. Unfortunately the quality of DuckDuckGo's search results for non-english-speaking countries are nowhere close to google's, which is why google is still the default there.

[krick]

Actually, I kinda am from non-english speaking country myself and use a couple more languages that are not English. Funny enough, Google localization is one thing that made me switch to DuckDuckGo. Somehow, Google thinks if my IP is from Latvia — it has to speak Latvian to me (which I'm admittedly a bit less comfortable with than English), if it's from Netherlands — it has to speak Dutch (which I don't speak at all). And (aside from manually adding bizzare GET-arguments into url) it doesn't even allow me to chose language myself. One evening it asked me to confirm some user-agreement in Latvian before I'm allowed to continue using search, I got annoyed and said "That's enough".

Yes, in some languages Google search is sometimes superior, but the difference isn't huge and I always can type "!g something" into DuckDuckGo if I need to (and I don't have to confirm any user agreements in that case).

In fact, what still makes me use Google search sometimes isn't localization or some clever heuristic features like flight search, but "search by image" feature. I don't know any other engine that would do that nearly as good as Google. TinEye is left far behind, unfortunately.

[sveme]

That Google feature pisses me off massively as well. Let's call it premature personalization. I'm in Germany, yet sometimes I'd actually like to visit news.google.co.uk or .com. Yet it seems to sometimes redirect me to the German news.google or the one I had previously open. On one of my laptops it even redirects me to the Italian one, yet I don't think I ever visited that one. Maybe, just maybe, google could stop thinking it is so much smarter than its users?

By the way, DuckDuckGo now has country/language localization as well, though it does not seem to be the default.

[balladeer]

I fully agree with the second part of your comment regarding DDG search results; I am from Asia. But Mozilla caring about user experience is something maybe from the bygone era. All it cares about now is market share and revenue. The Pocket episode was the last nail in coffin for me along with the continuous bloat it has been putting into once my only browser options which was for years for me.

[ionised]

They don't make any money from Pocket and they are a non-profit organisation.

Your comment and concerns don't make any sense.