Why People Should Never Ever Use DuckDuckGo
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DuckDuckGo is another privacy abuser in disguise; the above forum thread enumerates key reasons

Interesting, I remember a lot of people switching from Google and even seeing billboard ads for DDG. Even Ecosia, the site I use myself, is just returning Bing results (which are somewhat less ideologically curated compared to Google results). I don't like Bing either (Microsoft are a criminal enterprise). Has anyone used another search engine to recommend for privacy and good social values?

  • grisbajskulor [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Idk if this is just me, but I feel like there was also a transitional period post-2012 where I'd put "quotation marks" around every word to make sure it didn't ignore it. But even that doesn't fucking work anymore.

    • culdrought [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Yeah a couple of years ago Google stopped recognizing search operators like quotation marks, AND, NOT, etc.

      EDIT: I may be wrong about this, haven't used Google in a while

      • obamanator91 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Wait really? No wonder its got really shit for me too. feels bad man, just want classic google back.

        • culdrought [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          So I just checked and apparently the - and quotation mark operators are still supposed to work. I wouldn't be surprised if Google does its natural language fuckery anyway though.