What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
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#2DuckDuckGo is really changing my world. It’s like I’m seeing a whole other internet I was missing before with Google search results. I get much more relevant answers and less SEO targeted garbage that says all the right words usually while saying nothing at all. I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.
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#3DuckDuckGo is really changing my world. It’s like I’m seeing a whole other internet I was missing before with Google search results. I get much more relevant answers and less SEO targeted garbage that says all the right words usually while saying nothing at all. I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.
And the first page of results isn’t mostly ads.
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#4Why are Google and Facebook in the same jail?
What breach of privacy is Google guilty of?
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#5DuckDuckGo is really changing my world. It’s like I’m seeing a whole other internet I was missing before with Google search results. I get much more relevant answers and less SEO targeted garbage that says all the right words usually while saying nothing at all. I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.
DDG is awesome. They have been experiencing a surge of growth, https://duckduckgo.com/traffic
Yandex is another site I've been using for reverse image searches. I find it to be better than Google and Bing. Bellingcat has a great article on it, https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/how-tos/2019/12/26/guid...
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#6DuckDuckGo is really changing my world. It’s like I’m seeing a whole other internet I was missing before with Google search results. I get much more relevant answers and less SEO targeted garbage that says all the right words usually while saying nothing at all. I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.
DDG fails on "Single Unix Specification Issue 7".
Google takes you straight to the online installation at https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/
DDG finds this: https://publications.opengroup.org/c181 where the "Read HTML Edition Online" button is a non-working dud.
Still switching to DDG for most searches, though.
Re: What can you use instead of Google and Facebook?
#7DuckDuckGo is really changing my world. It’s like I’m seeing a whole other internet I was missing before with Google search results. I get much more relevant answers and less SEO targeted garbage that says all the right words usually while saying nothing at all. I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.
My wife still uses Google as her default search engine on her phone while I switched to DDG years ago. I dread using her phone to search anything.
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#8Google is relatively straight forward to replace. Inexpensive 80% solutions exist for most of their services. Maps is a notable exception.
As for Facebook you're fighting against the greatest network effects in the history of mankind.
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#9DuckDuckGo is really changing my world. It’s like I’m seeing a whole other internet I was missing before with Google search results. I get much more relevant answers and less SEO targeted garbage that says all the right words usually while saying nothing at all. I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.
> I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.
I have - I found the results far less useful than Google's, the whole experience far more frustrating and it noticeably slowed down my work.
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#10DuckDuckGo is really changing my world. It’s like I’m seeing a whole other internet I was missing before with Google search results. I get much more relevant answers and less SEO targeted garbage that says all the right words usually while saying nothing at all. I was skeptical, but I encourage you to give it a try if you haven’t before.
I tend to switch over to Qwant when DDG fails to deliver sometimes. That combo works quite well.