Originally shared by John Soanes (lost2gether)
Google, you've kicked me out, now I want a divorce!
DuckDuckGo is a search engine serving results up-to-par w/ Google AND doesn't collect/share user info, doesn't track you while browsing (oh, you thought "private mode" in Chrome was actually private?) #ComeToTheDuckSide how cute is that hashtag, too? https://duckduckgo.com/about
#GPlusOrphan #privacy
https://duckduckgo.com/about
Google, you've kicked me out, now I want a divorce!
DuckDuckGo is a search engine serving results up-to-par w/ Google AND doesn't collect/share user info, doesn't track you while browsing (oh, you thought "private mode" in Chrome was actually private?) #ComeToTheDuckSide how cute is that hashtag, too? https://duckduckgo.com/about
#GPlusOrphan #privacy
https://duckduckgo.com/about
am trying that just now
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ReplyDeleteYeah, I left Chrome and use Firefox. I've been meaning to try DDG.
ReplyDeletehttps://startpage.com is another alternative.
ReplyDeleteI even gave up chatting using Hangouts and switched to the app Conversations, available for free on F-Droid.
startpage.com - Startpage.com - Die diskreteste Suchmaschine der Welt.
Holger Jakobs I'll look at startpage to compare.I never got into the Hangouts, IMs and chats.
ReplyDeleteCan't recommend startpage DOT com, as it was bundled in (possibly innocently) as part of a browser hijack in the past:
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I tried duckduckgo and the results were in no way par with Google Search. Startpage however really delivers adequate results - but the image search could be better.
ReplyDeleteDDG is used by journalists all over the world
ReplyDeletestefan holzhauer They're not meant to be directly competitive in terms of volume. They aren't tracking your searches is the main benefit.
ReplyDeleteThe same as startpage. If a search engines search results are of bad quality, it is unusable. That is the case for me with duckduckgo. Starpage also does not track and the results are way better.
ReplyDeletestefan holzhauer But see above where they were apparently embroiled in trying to hijack browsers...?
ReplyDeleteNot a fan.
ReplyDeleteI'm a long-time user of DDG and recommend it highly.
ReplyDeleteJ P Sousa Paula That's a bad thing, isn't it?
ReplyDeleteJ P Sousa Paula I will test both for a while. I use GMail, but also have other accounts I can send stuff to that I don't want Google read. My issue, beyond the tracking is Google's un-commitment to a plan, now also tossing Inbox into a rather large pile of abandoned projects. Google is so bumfuzzled they can't complete one lap on a track to see how they finish. Innovation I get, changing your mind every ten minutes for no apparent reason, that's incompetent management.
ReplyDeleteJ P Sousa Paula Thanks. I'll do some comparisons myself when I have some oddball queries, they all find the easy stuff.
ReplyDeleteEdward Morbius Good to know.
ReplyDeleteJohn Soanes No tracking, no bubbling, bang searches, a lite version that's excellent for my text-mode browsing or commandline searches (Linux).
ReplyDeleteThe ability to go straight to Wikipedia (!w), Hacker News (!hn), Worldcat (!worldcat), OpenStreetMap (!osm), weather (!noaa), and more. With the rate at which generalised web search is going to crap, heading straight to preferred sources helps.
And ... YouTube (!yt), news (!news), images (!img), archive.org generally (!archive), wayback machine specifically (!wayback).
You can search bangs with !bang .
There are thousands. Find the ones you need.
I'm also a long-time user, and agree it's a great product/tool, though not going to dredge up all that Google does. But good.
ReplyDeleteAlso, while Firefox is also fine, solo or w/DDG, I hadn't seen it mentioned, but DDG is just fine as a standalone. It's also the default search w/Opera, or was.
Michael Fenichel The main limitations that still frustrate me:
ReplyDelete1. No date-bounded search. I'd like to be able to search within a given date range.
2. No (estimates of) hit totals. I often want to know how many results exist. Google gives me that, DDG does not.
(I should check Startpage and other proxies.)
Oh, there's also a !save bang, for adding pages to the Internet Archive, though that seems broken presently.
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