I've been using duckduckgo and bing for a while now. Google is just a fallback.
Don't forget about Wikipedia citations!
Every Google result now looks like an ad
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That's not true. CDNs host AMP sites on their own domains and infrastructure, independent of Google: https://amp.cloudflare.com/
By "their CDN" I meant Google, Cloudflare and Microsoft. Can we set up our own CDN to serve our own content from our own servers and receive the AMP badge in search results? Please disclose your affiliation to Google either in your bio or in comments, and don't post the same comment in multiple places.
> Can we set up our own CDN to serve our own content from our own servers and receive the AMP badge in search results
This...doesn't make sense. You lose the value of a CDN (both to you and to the consumer of your content, in this case Google and the end user) if you're rolling your own.
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#483Google is a Trillion dollar company for a reason
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#484Googlexit, anyone?
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#485Very much a way to mitigate the FTC's requirements on making advertising more distinct than organic results. It is an unpopular opinion but I believe Google is dying. They have been for a long time. The cancer is that nothing other than search ads generates the revenue and margins they need and the margins on search ads are now down 90% from where they were in 2010. Personally I'm long on Microsoft/Bing as a candidat…
Not only this, but they are also no longer near top of the market for software pay.
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The only thing I can’t fully rely on DDG for is on mobile if I search a business on iPhone - I need the address and phone number instantly. DDG still isn’t as good as google at this.
You can always prepend „!g“ before your query in DDG to fall back to Google.
Typing that on mobile is not easy
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#487Good thing I stoped using google search last year :)
Actually I’ve stopping using google for EVERYTHING, except one old legacy throwaway gmail account. I must say, it feels really good!
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#488Something that's kind of related is that I feel I'm seeing more and more spam websites and straight up malicious websites on google. They are often duplicated across many domains.
By malicious I mean websites that destroy the back history, create alerts, beeps the computer (not sure how that works) and other nonsense about virus infections.
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I felt the same about Google alternatives up until about 3 months ago. Google's results have been declining in quality for a decade, with much more rapid decline over the past year or three. Google's results are uglier and blatantly revenue based. They have now lapsed behind DuckDuckGo in usefulness for me. I fall back to Google a few times per week, with inconsistent results when I need a "second opinion." I'd sugge…
Do you (or anyone else) have any recommendations for an email service? I've cut pretty much everything Google out of my life, minus Gmail, mostly due to not wanting to go through all the trouble of transferring everything over to a service that I end up not liking. I've heard ProtonMail is good, but other than that, I'm not sure.
If you own a domain through Gandi (possibly others) you get email included for free. This is what I use. I don’t know why I don’t see this recommended more often?
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#490Very much a way to mitigate the FTC's requirements on making advertising more distinct than organic results. It is an unpopular opinion but I believe Google is dying. They have been for a long time. The cancer is that nothing other than search ads generates the revenue and margins they need and the margins on search ads are now down 90% from where they were in 2010. Personally I'm long on Microsoft/Bing as a candidat…
You're not the only one. It seems like G itself thinks that, hence all the desperate attempts to diversify - which I see as an attempt to parley a short-term cash and talent surplus into something, anything, that will have value in the long run.
It will be interesting to see what a desperate Goog might do with access to everyone's email, calendars, and docs.