this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2024
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also there's not always an obvious correlation. so for instance if my IP is in New Mexico, and I am looking for "best new vacation destinations" I could get results like "Vacation Getaways to Mexico" and also "2024 Vacation Destinations" and also "Best Places to Visit in France" and also "Fun Destinations in New Mexico" and they are all mixed together, but it feels like the total is possibly informed by the a guess of the IP even if duckduckgo isn't passing that on.
Just checked your vacation search and I'm getting a best of lists from different websites. So far it looks like the usual places people would want to visit and nothing specific to where I'm located.
the original thing that seemed strange to me may have been a coincidence then.
my actual experience was worse than the example. it's like i was using a berlin based IP address, and did a search for luggage, and then the result was "Berlin Luggage Ecofriendly Designs." It could have been coincidental, but a top result had the city of the IP in it and there was nothing I mentioned in the search related to the IP. I also use a browser and OS system such that duckduckgo should know from javascript that I am likely and English speaker.
But sometimes coincidences happen.