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Re: Google Alternatives

#181

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That would be funny, but there are other examples like that. Pick any community towards the "right" and you will probably get the same result. i.e. search 'reddit dark enlightenment' Again first result on DDG, no result on Google.

I checked Wikipedia : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment It's a bit more than "towards the right" IMHO. I don't mind this reddit community being ignored by Google Search.

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Re: Google Alternatives

#182

Wish there was more info on the difference between these services. I really admire DDG but I don't think they check their ads well. I have been taken in by a scam ad once before. For email, I've been using fastmail ever since I asked this[1] two years ago. It is terrific. It also provides a calendar. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18054574

I also came here to suggest fastmail - it's been great overall, and the killer feature that allowed me to transition to it smoothly was that they offer email snoozing, which I use to manage my schedule and when to deal with emails, etc. That was the great feature of inbox that I felt I couldn't leave until they killed it and sent me back to gmail (whose interface I don't like, and I want to de-google as much as possible, so it fitted together well).

Re: Google Alternatives

#183

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That would be funny, but there are other examples like that. Pick any community towards the "right" and you will probably get the same result. i.e. search 'reddit dark enlightenment' Again first result on DDG, no result on Google.

I checked Wikipedia : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment It's a bit more than "towards the right" IMHO. I don't mind this reddit community being ignored by Google Search.

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Re: Google Alternatives

#184

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Try Runnaroo. In many cases it's results are better than of anything else, including Google.

It's good if you're in the US. Doesn't give localised results for the UK.

I'm in the EU and it works great. I rely on it for my daily tasks and have no problems finding local services there. In fact I have already paid thousands Euros in contracts to local businesses I've discovered via Runnaroo.

Occasionally I still have to scroll down to click "Search on Google". I wish that link would be in the page top rather than bottom, especially for the picture search (where it is almost impossible to click as more results get shown as soon as you scroll down). It would also be cool if they would add a link to search with the local country-specific search engine (i.e. zoznam.sk, seznam.cz, yandex.ru etc.) for those located in respective countries.

Re: Google Alternatives

#185

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That would be funny, but there are other examples like that. Pick any community towards the "right" and you will probably get the same result. i.e. search 'reddit dark enlightenment' Again first result on DDG, no result on Google.

I checked Wikipedia : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment It's a bit more than "towards the right" IMHO. I don't mind this reddit community being ignored by Google Search.

Well, another one - 'donald trump reddit'.

Re: Google Alternatives

#186

I'm actually confused if this site was created ironically. * "Google search is malicious, send the same data to Russia with Yandex instead." * Apparently Google Chrome is a search engine. * "Google doesn’t care about users’ privacy that much. It collects your data and uses it for their own purposes." Might just be me, but this reads like a throwaway essay written by an 8th grader. * The site uses Google Analytics. De…

Sometimes I wonder how some random low quality article gets bumped up so fast, and then I think it's about keywords, but that doesn't explain the upvotes. Are people upvoting articles without reading both the article and the comments? I get the no-article part where you skip to the comments but if the comments shit on the article, why upvote?

Re: Google Alternatives

#187

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It really is turned off. Companies like Google get huge fines when they break their promise -- even accidentally.

LOL no. Try using Google Maps logged out on an Android phone for more than a week. Google will find a way to reconnect you to the default Google account on the device. An even better test: - get an Android device (say, a OnePlus 6T) - create some contacts on the phone, and add a few events in the default calendar - open the Play Store (required to get many of the most popular apps) - you're required to logged into a…

Smart phone OSes have the most pathological crap.

Things like this are why I tolerate all the bugs on the pinephone.

Re: Google Alternatives

#189

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I checked Wikipedia : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment It's a bit more than "towards the right" IMHO. I don't mind this reddit community being ignored by Google Search.

Well, another one - 'donald trump reddit'.

I get results about the subreddit the_donald, which has been deleted by reddit.

Re: Google Alternatives

#190

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Well, another one - 'donald trump reddit'.

I get results about the subreddit the_donald, which has been deleted by reddit.

For me:

Google: No reddit entry, with "The_Donald" entry from Wikipedia

DDG: /r/donaldtrump, /r/donald_trump, /r/AskTrumpSupporters as first 3 results.

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