Manually changing region to Russia gives many more results. https://duckduckgo.c...

Reason077 · on Aug 25, 2020

> "Manually changing region to Russia gives many more results."

This probably explains it: DuckDuckGo indexes different languages together in one big index internally(?). "VK" returns many results in Russian, filling some maximum number of results. And then a filter just removes all the Russian ones if you're searching from a non-Russian locale?

bhrgunatha · on Aug 25, 2020

> Might be a partnership with Yandex to not show russian results outside Russia?

Quite the opposite.

My search results from DDG over the past year or so have been infested with Russian sites, articles and even twitter account titles of English language accounts, despite not living there and not having any preference for Russian in any browsers settings or regions and never issuing a single query in Russian.

s0l1dsnak3123 · on Aug 25, 2020

"infested" is a little much, don't you think? I can sympathise with frustration on having results that don't match your language preferences, but "infested"? Come on.

samatman · on Aug 25, 2020

I understand the discomfort, but people have been describing a page of bad search results as "infested" for a long time.

Perhaps it was intended as a slight against Russians, but I'd ask you to assume good faith.

vmception · on Aug 25, 2020

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outworlder · on Aug 25, 2020

By 'generational', you mean "spanning multiple generations"?

vmception · on Aug 25, 2020

I mean the sentiment lacks nuance and it gives context to why someone would use pejorative adjectives about Russian-anything even when referring to search engine results

And you can pinpoint which generations of people are likely speaking by their use of said pejoratives on otherwise benign subjects

delaaxe · on Aug 25, 2020

More like, “that pertains to a given generation”

meowface · on Aug 25, 2020

I think the parent was retorting that anti-Russia sentiment in the US spans multiple generations.

stephenr · on Aug 25, 2020

Not if you’re a republican apparently.

pjc50 · on Aug 25, 2020

They're only against Communism. Russians with money are just fine, apparently. The logical conclusion of "money is speech" is that foreign intelligence agencies can buy as much speech as they like.

vmception · on Aug 25, 2020

Protip: its not just Russians playing around with sentiment in other countries for their own gains, and it is extremely easy to deflect all attention towards Russia. It can be long time allies that you harbor the least feelings about.

newen · on Aug 26, 2020

The US has been doing it for well over 50 years.

solarkraft · on Aug 25, 2020

Google searches also often yield Russian sites for me, mostly what appears to be StackOverflow translations.

slezyr · on Aug 25, 2020

I don't think this is it. VK has an english version as well. I've seen it being used by the English-speaking people.

ffpip · on Aug 25, 2020

Yes. It definitely has more than 100 million users.

It might be a Yandex partnership to not show outside Russia

nemetroid · on Aug 25, 2020

Searching for ”vk” should return a lot of things beside the Russian social network. Vodka Kick, Vulkan, Voight-Kampff, Västerbottens-kuriren, etc. etc. I don’t think this is intentional.