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by znowi 4925 days ago
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.

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