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Re:$149 Chromebooks by Karunamon on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @03:12PM (#9299125)
Nobody here is under any misconceptions that Google doesn't get most of their money from advertising - where we diverge is what their overall mission is and how good or bad those ad tactics are, and if they represent a good tradeoff for the services they provide.

Personally, I've got no issues letting them build a better profile in return for some of the best web services out there. I owe my career to the excellence of their search product.

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Re:$149 Chromebooks by towelguy on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:08PM (#9299901)
I find duckduckgo equally effective and they don't need to build a profile on me to do it.
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Re:$149 Chromebooks by Karunamon on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @05:18PM (#9299969)
What often gets ignored in that value judgement is that the profile can lead to more relevant search results. (Subjectively, Google's results get better when I'm signed in.)

At least for me, using DDG is like stepping back into the 90's as far as search result quality goes.

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Re:$149 Chromebooks by tracker1 on Tuesday March 31, 2015 @07:47PM (#9300655)
Agreed, I tried it for about a month, and went back to google... with my profile information, my search results tend to be much better.
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