Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case

Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by Karunamon on Thursday January 26, 2023 @02:12PM (#34537098)

They are privacy focused in as much as they don't track you themselves, they just hand you off to Microsoft to be tracked.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/24/ddg-microsoft-tracking-blo...

Their founder is also on record as "down ranking misinformation", which is not a judgment call I want my search engine making. Relevance and truth are two different things.

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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by barbazoo on Thursday January 26, 2023 @02:40PM (#34537589)

> Their founder is also on record as "down ranking misinformation"

https://mashable.com/article/duckduckgo-search-engine-russia...

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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by Karunamon on Thursday January 26, 2023 @02:44PM (#34537648)

Also here, straight from the horse's mouth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33247856

The sketchy and indirect way they engage with this criticism put me off of ever trusting DDG.

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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by barbazoo on Thursday January 26, 2023 @02:58PM (#34537858)

Thanks!

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Re:Google Is Screwed, Even If It Wins Its Antitrust Case by danjoredd on Thursday January 26, 2023 @04:42PM (#34539242)

If you are into self-hosting, I hear Searx is pretty good. Been thinking on setting that up on my personal server so I can just stop relying on companies

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