Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox

Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by vacri on Friday December 12, 2014 @07:05PM (#8743454)

You don't have to load the site (trivial, but not negligible), throwing a bang in front of an already written search is simpler than rewriting the search, and google doesn't build a profile around you as another entity is doing the search.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by icebraining on Friday December 12, 2014 @08:34PM (#8743734)

another entity is doing the search.

What? It redirects your browser to Google, it's you doing the search, not any other entity. They don't proxy or anything.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by ripdog on Saturday December 13, 2014 @12:15AM (#8744258)

He means that, for example, "!hn rust" would search hacker news directly for rust, whereas "hacker news rust" on google would do a similar job but via google, informing google of your search.

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by vacri on Saturday December 13, 2014 @05:02AM (#8744770)

Sorry, ripdog and icebraining - I got it wrong. I hadn't played with ddg for a while and my memory was in error - I recalled !g returning google results in the ddg interface. My mistake.

I couldn't correct it because of HN's stupid 5-comment policy that applies to comments made in all threads combined, and couldn't edit the original comment with a correction as it had been more than an hour. :/

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Re:Yahoo Starts Prompting Chrome Users to “Upgrade” to Firefox by wutbrodo on Saturday December 13, 2014 @01:27AM (#8744412)

That's definitely not what his comment says. He's quite clearly talking about !g (not other bangs) and saying (incorrectly) that another entity (DDG) is doing the Google search so Google can't build a profile around you.

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