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Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by ObsoleteNerd »

arenaninja wrote: post #55

The only place I still use google on is my phone because I haven't care enough to change the default browser. Even on desktop when I don't find what I want from DuckDuckGo I find myself using !b (bing) instead of !g (google) On mobile it's another story. The intrusive ads from content creators (think auto playing video, full screen popup, etc.) ruin the experience and it's easier to just look at the google-provided s…

I think a mobile browser that basically puts everything in a Reader-mode style format all the time, would be truly awesome.

The web is an absolute mess. I don't even like browsing stuff anymore because I know i'm going to be overwhelmed by horrible heavy designs, endless external scripts, autoplay video on every news site, and more ads than content.

I use adblockers, no-script (on desktop), etc, but there's definitely a market for browsers that take this on and give us a cleaner experience akin to the old-web.

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by craftyguy »

danso wrote: post #68
Jedi72 wrote: post #42

Google isnt even a good search engine any more. I tried finding my friends website, www.catbartlett.com.au, with the terms "Freelance graphic designer Cat Bartlett Perth Western Australia" - pretty specific, but the first page is nothing but LinkedIn profile links and random mentions of her in testimonials. If it takes thousands of $$ in SEO to get found, how is that a useful search engine? We might as well go back t…

I have to doubt that this is a problem with Google. Either your friend's website was just launched (and not yet indexed), or your friend's site seems to have unusually bad SEO and configuration. Doing a Google search just for the URL brings up no results for the actual site -- though it does bring up all of your friend's social media sites: https://www.google.com/search?q="www.catbartlett.com.au" I don't think the pr…

I agree. Searching those exact terms on DDG does not yield the desired site on the first 3 pages (I gave up searching after that).

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by tmerr »

Jedi72 wrote: post #42

Google isnt even a good search engine any more. I tried finding my friends website, www.catbartlett.com.au, with the terms "Freelance graphic designer Cat Bartlett Perth Western Australia" - pretty specific, but the first page is nothing but LinkedIn profile links and random mentions of her in testimonials. If it takes thousands of $$ in SEO to get found, how is that a useful search engine? We might as well go back t…

This is most likely a WiX configuration issue. The HTML source for https://www.catbartlett.com.au/ contains
Maybe try https://support.wix.com/en/article/enabling-search-engines-e... ?

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by mgalgs »

mygo wrote: post #46
stevenjohns wrote: post #30

After everything that has happened in the last few weeks I've completely moved away from Google. 1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail 2. I moved away from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone 3. I stopped using Chrome's password manager on iOS in favor of 1Password and Firefox Lockbox 4. I've mostly stopped using the Google search engine and now using DDG and Bing if I have…

I switched away from Google to Bing on my iPhone because I like to Google in incognito mode for basically everything... and recently Google’s added some annoying friction to that. I started Googling in incognito when Google decided to return “personalized” search results instead of standard results, a few years ago. I was always more interested in the normal results than whatever Google thought I specifically wanted…

I've never seen this behavior by Google in incognito... Wonder if they're doing some questionable browser/os fingerprinting to track you??

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

stevenjohns wrote: post #30

After everything that has happened in the last few weeks I've completely moved away from Google. 1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail 2. I moved away from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone 3. I stopped using Chrome's password manager on iOS in favor of 1Password and Firefox Lockbox 4. I've mostly stopped using the Google search engine and now using DDG and Bing if I have…

I really prefer Searx[1] to DDG. It has a not dissimilar feature set to DDG (and you can even use it to search DDG). I've been using various public instances[2] of Searx for a while. And it's free/open, licensed as AGPLv3+[3].

[1] https://asciimoo.github.io/searx/ [2] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/wiki/Searx-instances [3] https://github.com/asciimoo/searx/blob/master/LICENSE

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by projektir »

stevenjohns wrote: post #30

After everything that has happened in the last few weeks I've completely moved away from Google. 1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail 2. I moved away from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone 3. I stopped using Chrome's password manager on iOS in favor of 1Password and Firefox Lockbox 4. I've mostly stopped using the Google search engine and now using DDG and Bing if I have…

> 1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail

I'm looking to switch my email. Any thoughts on Fastmail vs ProtonMail? Do you feel secure with Fastmail?

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by mgalgs »

300bps wrote: post #69
MisterOctober wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, Docs is going to be a tough nut to crack. I use DDG for search, but Docs [/Sheets, etc] is hard to get away from in business. [Sorta like Office was 20 years ago, I guess]

My kids use G Suite in school but I have never seen anyone in business use it. Office (and more specifically, Office 365) are very prevalent still.

I know a lot of small companies (including mine) use it a lot.

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

ReinholdNiebuhr wrote: post #63
stevenjohns wrote: post #30

After everything that has happened in the last few weeks I've completely moved away from Google. 1. I retired my ~15 year old Gmail account and registered with Fastmail 2. I moved away from Chrome to Firefox on both my laptop and phone 3. I stopped using Chrome's password manager on iOS in favor of 1Password and Firefox Lockbox 4. I've mostly stopped using the Google search engine and now using DDG and Bing if I have…

if anyone can recommend a replacement for google scholar then I'm pretty much set. it's hard to give up youtube still cause so much content is on it e.g. lectures.

Unfortunately, I don't know any replacement for any of the features of Google Scholar.[1] I usually access YouTube via NewPipe[2] on mobile, and youtube-dl[3] elsewhere (and there's a GUI version of youtube-dl[4], though the command-line version is really easy to use).

[1] Although, given that it's useful, I expect Google will probably shut it down within the next 5-10 years.

[2] https://newpipe.schabi.org/

[3] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

[4] https://mrs0m30n3.github.io/youtube-dl-gui/

Re: Pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo hits 30M daily searches, up 50% in a year

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Post by _emacsomancer_ »

anders_p wrote: post #64
kryogen1c wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not only is this funny, it's very true. I work in IT, and even the most computer illiterate people generally can't get tricked into using Bing.

Bing's video search is actually surprisingly good. Some of my friends have told me that it's a lot better for porn than Google.

That's the only (positive) thing I ever hear about Bing.
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