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by samwillis 4925 days ago
This is by the same guys as the million short search engine (Google minus the top million). Probably good to use this in combination with the dns to find things that are not just broken links.

http://www.millionshort.com/

The search engine was discussed on HN before: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3910304

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Yes, it's not very useful without the search engine. Which I have tried just now and the experience was... frustrating.

Why? Cause it did not return any results for any of my queries (e.g. "hello"). I thought, no, it can't be broken - must be something on my end. I opened it in Chrome incognito window and it worked! Aha, "location based", I thought. And I was right - they use IP location by default to localize results.

I know it is a common practice now, sadly, popularized by Google, et al - but it sucks! I deal with this each time I travel. Can you, please, prioritize this and first look into my actual request header, which explicitly says that I prefer response in English? Thank you very much.

Why would an incognito window prevent them from customizing results based on your IP?