I have a Xiaomi Redmi 10S mobile phone bought directly from Xiaomi in the UK about a year ago. I have always used DDG as my default browser. I deleted most of the garbage that all phones come with and it is fairly well locked-down plus I security check the phone every night plus clear history and cache. I do not allow "find my phone" nor use maps.
Last night I decided to check using Chrome for the very first time my #1 keyword phrase and I simply could not believe what I saw ... 100% US results, US ads infinitum and a never-ending scrolling page.
There were no UK ads, no UK offering whatsoever, every organic result shown was a US company, not a single link to any company from the originating widget country, India, and believe me there are plenty of suppliers.
Ok, I get it, G filters all foreign companies out of its SERPs as much as it can to feature US ad payers, if it were my search engine I would probably do the same, but just HOW did my phone deliver solely US results?
I must also comment that if this is what US consumers are seeing then it is absolutely no wonder we have so many webmaster complaints about G's results, it was simply a classified ads page with the occasional organic randomly inserted.
I'm intrigued what my phone did, incidentally my DDG results were as expected for the UK, pretty good.
