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