Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Stealing Your Mobile Traffic”

Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by antocv on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:43AM (#12733325)

Ill jump on the top post for now, and recommend everyone to use Yandex Search. Yes that is right. Not duckduckgo, because that one is anyway using Google in its backend.

Yandex is surprisingly good, take some time to try it out, whenever you think "oh shit results" and want to switch back to Google search, remind yourself how often you automatically rephrase your search when you dont find anything on Google either. Rephrase search, try again, you will find better results than what you had with Google.

There is less spam/ads, and you will discover whole new websites, and network of websites, some even foreign sites but in English.

It feels like using Google from 2004.

www.yandex.com and no Im not payed by them.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by maxerickson on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:52AM (#12733351)

I don't think DuckDuckGo is using Google.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources

In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we source from Bing, Yahoo, and Yandex.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by antocv on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @06:58AM (#12733365)

Oh that is nice, was not the case last time I checked duck.

Still, duckduckgo is an US company, better stay away from those given the history of last decade.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by laurent123456 on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @07:23AM (#12733454)

So better go with Yandex, the Russian company?

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by blacksmith_tb on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @05:43PM (#12739005)

Potentially, unless you happen to be in Russia... clearly if you live in say, Belgium (or Singapore, or New Zealand, etc.), it's unlikely that any Russian agency that has access to your searches will share that data outside their borders. Of course it's generally your service provider that you have to worry about.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by kuschku on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:17AM (#12733679)

Yes, if there’s multiple international companies competing, that’s better than one (even if it might be morally good) company having a monopoly.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by maxerickson on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @08:01AM (#12733603)

As I understand it, they've never used Google's index.

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Re:Response from Google Tech Lead, Re: “Google May Be Steali... by awqrre on Tuesday October 18, 2016 @07:30AM (#12733484)

> It feels like using Google from 2004.

Did they bring back the + operator? I still miss it even if you can use quotes instead...

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