Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking

Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by ebalit on Friday October 21, 2016 @05:08PM (#12764832)

Automatically proposing the best bang query would be awesome. It should be doable to predict the best bang from the query.

Google does something like this when it shows images or scientific articles on top of other results.

DDG could even predict that it needs to fallback to Google in last resort.

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Re:Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tra... by dredmorbius on Friday October 21, 2016 @07:56PM (#12765995)

So ... the best bang for the buck? ;-)

DDG's auto question-answer stuff is pretty good. Not quite as polished as Google, but IMO far less annoying. Google thinks it knows better than I what I want. DDG seems willing to allow me to provide reasonable prompts. "Weather" and "what is..." queries, for example.

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