DuckDuckGo.com
 

I have been noticing more traffic coming from this search engine lately... I looked it up and came across their ad


Pretty eye-opening

Also: Google tracks you. We don't. An illustrated guide.

I played around with the search engine, and it's actually pretty good. Better than Bing at least

Not terribly surprising. To be honest, I understand why Google does it, but I don't necessarily like it.

Yup considering I make much of my living via Google's tracking, I can't complain too much. I just think it's important for everyone to be aware of it. For most people it doesn't matter until it does, if you know what I mean

I don't mind the ads being targeted to you and all that, what I don't like is search results being toyed with

Its the preferred search engine of people using Tor

My brain has built-in AdBlock anyway, so I don't care how targeted they are.

Not surprised. There is always someone that is going to do it better, and there is always a company at the top that thinks they can't be beat.

Especially in tech.

Google rose to the top in having a fast, simple search interface that gave accurate results. Well, now they are fast, but its not as simple and the accuracy is falling in relation to money that can be made.

Now, some people would say, when I search for gun control, and I'm a republican, I may not be interested in what huffpo has to say. So it could be a good thing. Myself, I want to see what everyone has to say and don't want google making the call for me, so its a bad thing.

What happened to Myspace will happen to facebook and what happened to the other search engines will happen to google too. Hell, their earnings are already down this quarter, so already the invincible money maker hit a snag.

To be fair, their earnings aren't down, they just didn't reach their projected earnings. If I recall, their earnings actually rose this year from the same quarter, last year.

I must be missing something here. Someone educate me? So why does this matter??


I want my news, so I always use the same news site.
Things that got outside my bubble got pushed there in the first place...
Cause they were sites I never used anyway to begin with.

:suspicious:

But then you will never find anything new. It's like going to the same restaurant because you don't know any other exist. When there is a way better restaurant near by.

Haha, we have less spam..

But I wouldn't put that blame on Google when they are tracking you for your own convenience.

If we would like to try new restaurants, all we have to do is go look for something new, go to a different area, etc.

But the fact that people are too lazy to click to page 2 means they are already content with what they see on page 1. If I wasn't happy with the results I'm finding in page 1, I would then use sites on page 2, therefore bumping up page 2 results to my page 1 over time.

So in DuckDuckGo's system, I would have to go to page 2 every time, since the site I like to use is on page 2 (and forever stuck on page 2)?

I could be misunderstanding DDG's system, or missing a bigger internet issue that goes deeper than this, but I'm not seeing it right now.

Google is starting to piss me off lately. Im having to get to page 3 and 4 before I find links worth reading. Everything on page 1 and into page 2 is an online store now.

not only that when you search something it when the word or part of it is typed in it will normally end the page down showing you a bunch of links. At least let me type in all my words first.

Are you talking about the Google Instant Predictions?

I hate it and I turn it off in my settings:
Preferences

I think the whole 'keeping you in a bubble' is a little bit exaggerated. I'll try to use this site for the next week to see how it goes though