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Fuck Google.
Searching a tracking number from Chrome using Google? Finds a package.
Same search on Google from Firefox leads to nothing.
It also does that with other unrecognised user agents.
Personally I don't understand why someone would still use Google when duckduckgo has more features and is just as good for searching and in the very rare case it isn't you can easily switch back temporarily by just adding the prefix "!g" to your query.
Isn't ducksuckgo just paying for google search with a privacy wrapper/obfuscation layer on top?
Yes, except for it's Bing search not Google
I think they also use Yahoo and their own scrapers too.
Not that it matters of course.