Search Localization Issues

If you go to google.de or google.jp you get a diff selection to the same query “anerican scientists” (in local language).

My locale is FR but if I search for "BMW UK" in DDG it gives the UK sites immediately.DDG doesn't have accumulated personal knowledge of you, so you have to be explicit. I don't see that as a high cost given the benefits.

I am not logged in and I always get UK search results even if I search on google.com.

Google search is becoming increasingly annoying.It randomly starts mixing results in local language. Worse they detect my location incorrectly and start showing results in languages that I can't even read.

Or for me in the UK with UK IP, UK account, UK language settings. Seemingly globally means the USA to google

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 -

For me, this redirects to the German version (I'm in Germany on a device with a German locale). I'd really love to have a way to tell Google to only show English-language hits.

You can probably get around this by going to google.us instead of google.com. Assuming, of course, that you want US-specific content.

Have you tried the DDG setting where you can specify your region to get region-specific results?

If you're not a native english speaker working in tech, google will sometime show you (in my case) French forums or websites even if the query was entirely written in english. It is quite annoying, and i often get better results using ddg and !g than using google itself.