Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

Post by beefield » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 6:34 AM UTC

zepearl wrote: post #90

__ka wrote: post #36

I have mixed feelings about this. If you recommend DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Ecosia you're essentially recommending Bing. Each of them have to show bing ads, forward the users' IPs as per Bing's terms of service (to fight ad fraud etc). Similarly, if you recommend StartPage, you're recommending Google. Same drill with ads. I like DuckDuckGo. But unless they build their own search - I think the fundamental problem has not be…

Does anybody have any infos about Qwant? It's the only EU-based search engine with its own indexing engine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant ) I don't care if it's EU or not, but is the index real or kind of half-fake? (like "yes, we have an index, but it's 10MBs big...") I started using Qwant ~2 months ago and it isn't bad: the snippets that are shown in the search results often don't contain the search terms th…

Post by echelon » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 6:44 AM UTC

noobquestion81 wrote: post #140

pkamb wrote: post #137

I switched my iPhone to Duck Duck Go over the last few days simply because I hate hate HATE getting linked to Reddit AMP pages from Google. Reddit (and Stack Exchange) pages are what I use most to find honest discussions about some topic. Very convenient to use those results to filter through the blogspam. Reddit's AMP pages are especially bad, with multiple annoying pop-ups that don't get cookied when you dismiss th…

I 100% agree with the reddit experience - it takes like 4 taps just to get to the #%!* page. No I don’t want your app shoved down my throat on every load. It has completely ruined reddit for me on mobile. Just show me ads if you need to and leave me alone.

Post by Moru » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 6:49 AM UTC

beefield wrote: post #151

zepearl wrote: post #90

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Does anybody have any infos about Qwant? It's the only EU-based search engine with its own indexing engine ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant ) I don't care if it's EU or not, but is the index real or kind of half-fake? (like "yes, we have an index, but it's 10MBs big...") I started using Qwant ~2 months ago and it isn't bad: the snippets that are shown in the search results often don't contain the search terms th…

No knowledge, but at least for my searches it has a definite edge against ddg. (I am European.) What I especially like is that in many cases qwant returns nothing if there is no exact match of my query (typically I made a typo.) I kind of like the feeling that the engine tries to search what I tell it to search, not what it thinks I want to search.

Post by tomcooks » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 6:54 AM UTC

madiathomas wrote: post #156

I tried DDG a while ago and it didn't feel natural to me. It will be so hard for me to change a search engine after using Google for 20 years. I am too attached to this search engine and it is good enough for my needs. I rarely change things that are working for me. It feels strange for me when I am using other search engines. I feel like I am cheating on my spouse. The first thing I do when I buy an iPhone is to hid…

Post by jasonvorhe » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 6:59 AM UTC

pkamb wrote: post #137

I switched my iPhone to Duck Duck Go over the last few days simply because I hate hate HATE getting linked to Reddit AMP pages from Google. Reddit (and Stack Exchange) pages are what I use most to find honest discussions about some topic. Very convenient to use those results to filter through the blogspam. Reddit's AMP pages are especially bad, with multiple annoying pop-ups that don't get cookied when you dismiss th…