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by weinzierl 3071 days ago
If you don‘t want to use DuckDuckGo you can do:

http://google.com/ncr

I used this as default before I switched to DuckDuckGo completely. For a software developer google.de results are pretty useless. Switching the language to English helps a bit, but ncr results are a lot better for software and tech topics.

Also, if you want to break out of your own bubble and get non-personalized results, Google is pretty useless, because of the annoying data protection pop up.

Pretty much the only times I use Goggle is for local search , otherwise I’m pretty happy with ddg.
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timstapl 3071 days ago
I believe ncr doesn't really work for this purpose anymore as searching on google.com will give you results for the country you're in without redirecting you to a different TLD.

However you can set the region you want results for in your preferences. https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-search-result...

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distances 3071 days ago
Preferences works in regular mode, but I've noticed I mostly browse in private mode these days. Opening a private browser window has just become a habit I suppose, and probably not a bad habit either.
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distances 3071 days ago
I do use NCR to switch to regular results in normal browsing mode where the selection sticks, but I don't know how to do that for the Firefox search box in private browsing.

In my experience Google is usually giving more relevant results to software development related searches, so I would like to retain that at least as an option.

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