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I am typing this from India. DDG never provides satisfactory results for anything country specific. As an example, point 6 above is a failure. I used to have DDG as my default, but my workflow got so convoluted that I would search first on DDG, see that the results as not good, open google and search again. It is so frustrating that I switched back to Google even when I didn't want to.

Edit: typos.

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I'm sure others have commented this elsewhere, but DDG has bang operators.

For your use case, simply append !g to the DDG search and it will do a Google search instead.

Right, but Google supports Google search without bang operators.

No way!

Did you use localized search or the general search? For me 6 works great with !ddgde

Thank you, I didn't know that feature. I almost always used g! to switch to Google when searching for country specific terms, guess I can change that now.

I don’t find a !ddgde equivalent operator for India(en).

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