I am thinking about the current debt based economy which is based on growth and stock prices, and Google and the tracking ad bubble is a good example of the problems. Brendan Eich talked about it: https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/870483249587519489 Google was VC funded so had to exit using IPO (in this case).
DuckDuckGo vs Google
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Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google
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And don't forget to use the bangs that can allow you to check other engines results fast if you need. For people afraid of getting off google, you can always search something like '!g my-search', it works the same for youtube(!yt), google image(!gi), or even hackernews(!hn) And of course the best bang is the 'I am feeling lucky' one (!), i.e.: 'hackernews !'
I'm tired of people mentioning !g. If you want to use google, just use google. Stop using duck duck go just to search google, and then say "but duck duck go is better" lo. no it isn't. clearly.
But then you can’t use bangs anymore. I think the idea is that Google is there if you need it while still retaining the benefit of using bangs. So, it’s the best of both worlds.
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#503Recently switched over to DuckDuckGo on all my devices. Tried to do the same thing several years ago and found it didn't really work out, but this time around it is so much better, both when it comes to speed and results. If anyone has doubts because they tried it years ago, I'd say go for it again.
It is quite for common things but searching uncommon ones always throws it off. Searching for research publications in a specific domain or just haskell or some thing like just returns 1good result with 10 bad ones. So I use !g for those. Also the autocorrect really throws my search terms off while Google does is right most of the time.
If you're searching for scholarly material:
!scholar Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google
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The only thing I miss is the "Past Year" option. I find it really important for filtering out programming stuff that's too old. "Past Month" is too short. I can't understand why it's not there. I've sent the suggestion several times.
It's because they get results from so many different sources. Many of those sources just don't keep time records or don't offer it through the API that DuckDuckGo interacts with.
But they have Past Day/Week/Month options.
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#505Those who use DDG, do you miss dates in results? Having a date present definitely helps me think about the results: https://www.google.com/search?q=dcss+branch+order https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dcss+branch+order This isn't a case where I _know_ I only want 2017 results, and so I do the syntax to filter it down automatically. I want all results, but I want to be aware of the timeline of whatever I'm going to click. But…
I too would use DDG as my default search engine if they added date range queries. I use that feature too often to not stick to Google right now.
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genius - thanks for this
A better solution is to enter the Reading mode of your browser. Some sites popup dialogs and even if you delete all the elements they have set some of the elements in the original page to not allow scroll. With reading mode you just bypass all that crap.
Reader mode tends to be a more uniform (a/k/a better) experience.
Though it's possible to do a hell of a lot of site fixing in Stylish via CSS edits.
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Firefox reader view is your friend
I'm continually impressed at how well this feature works. Several times I've come across an oddly formatted page and worried it'd lose styling required for the correct interpretation but not yet!
Try blogger with dynamic pages. They fail always.
Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google
#508Recently switched over to DuckDuckGo on all my devices. Tried to do the same thing several years ago and found it didn't really work out, but this time around it is so much better, both when it comes to speed and results. If anyone has doubts because they tried it years ago, I'd say go for it again.
And don't forget to use the bangs that can allow you to check other engines results fast if you need. For people afraid of getting off google, you can always search something like '!g my-search', it works the same for youtube(!yt), google image(!gi), or even hackernews(!hn) And of course the best bang is the 'I am feeling lucky' one (!), i.e.: 'hackernews !'
I've been a happy ddg user for months now but never knew about this, thanks!
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#509What's with this person's writing style? I've never seen so many literary tics in one place. "In short", 14 usages. Almost every sentence starts with a prepositional phrase like "In fact...", "Yet...", "However..." Confusing sentence structure like "How would have the net looked like?" It's so irritating to read.
E-book writer... should explain his style. Here's a TLDR summary: - Google huge, DDG tiny. - Gabriel Weinberg serial startups all failed until he sold one for $10MM, which allowed him to do and focus on DDG. - Privacy a big deal these days and DDG markets towards that. - DDG makes money from keyword advertising and affiliate revenue. - You too can profit from something!
How much is $10MM? Like, a million million? Or is a millimeter thickness of dollars?
Re: DuckDuckGo vs Google
#510Those who use DDG, do you miss dates in results? Having a date present definitely helps me think about the results: https://www.google.com/search?q=dcss+branch+order https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dcss+branch+order This isn't a case where I _know_ I only want 2017 results, and so I do the syntax to filter it down automatically. I want all results, but I want to be aware of the timeline of whatever I'm going to click. But…
Yeah DDG is sometimes missing to show the dates.. but as far I Know... We have a filter there to get the most recent results... This is what we need right.... It actually show's you there latest year or months results...