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Well, they also mangle/limit the Google Search on Firefox for Android. If you change your useragent to Chrome, it will show just fine, so it's not issue with Firefox, it's deliberate.
DDG has better results anyway
Google's results these days are shit. The other day I googled an exact terraform resource and included "terraform" in my search query. The first result should've been the page for that resource in terraform's documentation, but that page wasn't in the results at all. What was there was a blogspam copy of said page.
Doesn't DDG just use Bing?
No, they operate their own crawlers.
Per https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/:
Oh interesting. I've seen their crawlers in my server logs, didn't know they were using it to augment Bing.
Yeah, I forget about that until I get a new phone and have to reinstall that extension..
Just gives you a limited interface. The menu on left side is completely gone, voice search is missing, Google Lens is missing, you can't search by tags.
This add-on fixes it by changing useragent to Chrome when browsing Google: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-fixer/ which makes Firefox contribute to Chrome marketshare.
Weird to think now that Google used to have Customized Firefox search page.