Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by mastazi on Saturday August 22, 2020 @08:01PM (#24248337)

> I tried hard to replace Google Search with DDG, but I have to admit that Google gives me better search results.

In those cases where DuckDuckGo is not enough, just append !sp to your search, this will tell DDG to redirect your search to StartPage which is essentially a proxied Google search (the results come from Google but you as a user don't get in direct contact with Google itself).

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by chalst on Sunday August 23, 2020 @06:12AM (#24250867)

I think Google's invasion of privacy can be regarded as a kind of "symbiotic parasitism" - they are able to leverage the information they harvest from you to improve search quality. A proxy won't give as good results as letting Google spy on you.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by wizzwizz4 on Sunday August 23, 2020 @06:43AM (#24250980)

They show you results more like those they think you'll want. Woe betide you if you search political things; you'll be trapped in a partisan political filter bubble.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by chalst on Sunday August 23, 2020 @08:00AM (#24251282)

It is true that what Google judges to be best search quality is not the best for the world.

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by mastazi on Monday August 24, 2020 @01:00AM (#24257629)

Yeah from my experience you get the kind of results that you would get from searching in an incognito window i.e. non-personalised (mmm although now that I think of it, they probably have fingerprinting techniques so that they can still track you while incognito)

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Re:Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life by Tijdreiziger on Sunday August 23, 2020 @06:51PM (#24255965)

or just !s

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