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Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by nfriedly »

Georgelemental wrote: post #8
nomel wrote: post #2

I was able to convince my wife to switch for anything remotely "controversial", when, during the pandemic, we caught the relatively "real time" disappearance of several "against the grain" articles about covid [1]. By disappeared, I mean top results for the rough concept one day to not being able to find it, even with the exact title and text, the next. I want a search engine, more than a curated guide. [1] https://w…

DDG may not be the best if you want to avoid political meddling. I switched to Brave after https://web.archive.org/web/20220831110219/https://twitter.c...

I'm not sure I would consider downplaying misinformation websites as "political meddling". In fact, I think I like DDG more for it.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by f6v »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #35
VWWHFSfQ wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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> despite no proof that it isn't a possibility

Because you don’t get to come up with a “theory” and dump the burden of the proof on someone else. That’s incredibly stupid. Not how how science and common sense work.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by conradfr »

I use the widget and it's freeing to do silly searches without having them tied to my Google account.

The problem is that you can't remove the Google equivalent on a Pixel phone, so it's really wasted screen space and feel like anti-competitive. Until someone in the EU commission notices it and regulates it I guess...

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

mattkevan wrote: post #68

I've used DDG as my main search engine for about 4 years now. Until recently I found I was still having to go to Google for specific queries, mainly answering coding problems. But in the last 6 months or so, Google's results have gotten so bad and DDG has continued to improve to the point where I no longer bother with !g. When I do use Google I often find myself in the strange position of not actually being able to f…

I use chatgpt, the version with web browsing, instead of Google search some of the time and it does pretty well.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by sah2ed »

yegg wrote: post #45

For anyone curious, the best search market share data is from Cloudflare. Here is the latest report: https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/searchengines-2023-q1 . And here is our reasoning of why it is the best: https://spreadprivacy.com/search-engine-market-share-data-tw...

Would be nice if you could ask the DDG team to cite the links you provided as footnotes to your claim "DuckDuckGo owns the #2 position in mobile market share in the US, and 18 other markets ..." in TFA.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by anonymousab »

TobyTheDog123 wrote: post #37

These companies are solely built around the concept of trust. Your average person just doesn't care that Google is tracking them, and will therefore not take the obvious productivity hit by using a service with lower quality results (anything not Google). I feel like DuckDuckGo has had enough controversy in the trust department that it's entirely worthless as a company and as a service. Anything I do need to actually…

> Anything I do need to actually search these days, I just use Google, as I don't care about Google knowing I needed help with a Golang compiler error. It's not a worthwhile tradeoff for me.

The problem is when you need to research or learn about something that is verboten.

Even something as simple as "x worker strike" or "x protest" won't necessarily break any laws but will be of interest to certain automations, agencies and systems that may then endeavor to make your life hard without necessarily stepping over the legal line.

Not for being an undesirable to a ruling authority, but for looking up information related to them. And of course, this will evolve in more dystopic ways when it is all inevitably factored in to (financial|social) credit scores, insurance, access to services, etc. in the future. Either directly or laundered through AI or other systems.

That is less an argument in favor of DDG and more of a statement of why search engine privacy will become more and more important in the mid term.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by vkou »

bakugo wrote: post #57
anamexis wrote: post #42

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Ok. Agreeing with some censorship does not mean you must agree with all censorship.

No, it doesn't, but you're a hypocrite if you don't. If you think there's nothing wrong with the idea that "censorship is good as long as I'm not the one being censored", I don't know what to tell you.

Not everyone is a speech absolutist, that doesn't make them hypocrites.

In fact, as speech absolutists have taken over a few platforms, we've discovered that the primary hypocrisy surrounding speech is that there's a lot of people who claim to be speech absolutists, but aren't when push comes to shove.

Re: Advertise on DuckDuckGo Search

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Post by f6v »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #38
berkle4455 wrote: post #20

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Truth is messy. The vaccine is an amazing achievement and saved many lives. Understating the health risks to young men (myocarditis), and overstating the efficacy fed the anti-vaxxers, and was a disservice to science and healthcare.

And we haven’t even talked about the prevention paradox.
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