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Re:The Case Against Google by Terretta on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @12:55PM (#16422308)
You can also try https://www.startpage.com/ (or !s in DDG)

Googley, but without the personal dossier.

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Re:The Case Against Google by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @04:07PM (#16424206)
I'm seeing different ordering of results from Google. I used a fresh Private Browsing session, so no cookies.

Second result from Google: https://dlang.org/blog/2017/06/16/life-in-the-fast-lane/ (on StartPage this is the third result)

Second result from StartPage: https://dlang.org/spec/garbage.html (on Google this is the third result)

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Re:The Case Against Google by Terretta on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @06:45AM (#16428730)
Don’t know what to tell you except that one of them is known to filter and personalize results, definitely leverages your IP address and other identifiers, and the other claims not to.
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