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Re:Google Alternatives by uniqueid on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:14AM (#25382550)
Have you tried the comparison within the last year? You will probably find that while DDG Search is still just as bad as you remember, Google Search is no longer much better. I use Bing quite a bit, too, which is even closer in quality to Google Search.
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Re:Google Alternatives by edgyquant on Friday December 11, 2020 @01:09AM (#25382852)
My problem with bing, and I could be wrong for it, is I’m not looking to replace one data mining company with another. I’d much rather give a smaller, up and coming, company my searches.
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Re:Google Alternatives by piyush_soni on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:02AM (#25383455)
That an endless cycle. You give your time and money to a 'smaller' company (thinking they're not as evil), but soon they become big corporations and start doing the same kind of things. :)
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Re:Google Alternatives by GoblinSlayer on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:34AM (#25383904)
I switched search engines several times, had no problem with it. If you're afraid of abstinence syndrome, you can rotate them: monday - searx, tuesday - qwant, wednesday - mojeek, thursday - duck, friday - yandex, saturday - ecosia, sunday - gibiru.
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Re:Google Alternatives by uniqueid on Friday December 11, 2020 @01:31AM (#25382986)
Oh, I'm not thrilled to have Microsoft track me. Google disturbs me much more, though, mainly because their footprint is larger (Youtube, Gmail, etc).

Also, I don't live on Windows, which limits the amount of my data MS can get its hands on.

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Re:Google Alternatives by Moru on Friday December 11, 2020 @04:00AM (#25383740)
And with a pi-hole, you can easily block all windows telemetry domains. Which is about half of the requests on the DNS at our house...
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