How much longer will we trust Google’s search results?

Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by bordercases on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:00PM (#22140076)

You can remove some bias by using startpage.com but it won't eliminate SEO.

Maybe Yandex?

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by geogra4 on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:21PM (#22140329)

I wish baidu had an english version. But yeah, bing, yandex, ddg.

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by rowathray on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:06PM (#22142459)

Switch to OneSearch. It's just an anonymizing wrapper around Bing like DuckDuckGo, but since it's run by a public utility (Verizon) rather than a private fly by night outfit like DDG, I trust it slightly more.

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by xp84 on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:25PM (#22142616)

This seems fine and I'm not anti-onesearch or anti-Verizon in particular, but why do you feel that DDG is "fly by night"? Because they're small?

I think more Americans have been scammed by Verizon, Comcast, or AT&T than have ever even heard of DuckDuckGo! I have plenty of tiny class-action settlement checks to prove it.

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by rowathray on Friday January 24, 2020 @04:44PM (#22142763)

Because they're not public. If they ever got exposed violating privacy the owner would just declare bankruptcy and move to the Bahamas.

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Re:How much longer will we trust Google’s search results? by bordercases on Wednesday February 05, 2020 @11:45AM (#22248514)

By that logic, if Verizon was ever caught violating privacy we would not be able to keep it accountable because it's too large to fail.

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