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Re:The Case Against Google by JoshTriplett on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @12:33PM (#16422114)
I had a similar experience, and it took me a while to realize how much of my "this feels off" feeling was correlated to the appearance of the search results. I changed the DDG theme to match Google's appearance, and that feeling of "this feels off" evaporated.
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Re:The Case Against Google by Slansitartop on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:01PM (#16424166)
How do you do that? I've switched to DDG, but for some reason the search results page doesn't feel like search results.
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Re:The Case Against Google by JoshTriplett on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:08PM (#16424218)
Switch your theme from "Default" to "Basic".

(After spending a while with "Basic" to convince myself the results were just as good and I just had a trained reaction to the visual style, I went back to Default. And after a while, now Google results seem subtly off.)

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Re:The Case Against Google by Slansitartop on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:21PM (#16424312)
Thanks!

It looks like my mind over-fitted on blue title/green url/black pull-text as the code for a web search result hit.

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