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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by zdkl on Friday January 26, 2018 @04:44AM (#16237990)
Especially if This Time(tm) we manage to get an open alternative running well enough for public use. I know I'm definitely going to look into ActivityPub for my social circle, and DDG is more and more credible. There's yet hope I guess!
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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by dogma1138 on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:26AM (#16238166)
DDG works only because Google does if everyone shifts from Google and it’s search results tank because it loses all of the data associated with what and how people search so will DDG.
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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by CedarMadness on Friday January 26, 2018 @09:36AM (#16239440)
What do you mean? DDG uses the Bing api for its results, not Google.
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Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society by dogma1138 on Friday January 26, 2018 @11:17AM (#16240298)
I thought DDG uses multiple search engines including google.
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