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5c675fe7 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b4c50e1b 

I moved to DuckDuckGo a while ago, not for ideological reasons, but simply because it gives me, more often, what I am looking for.

One day I complained loudly at home that I was searching for maths related things, but was getting adverts for socks, and my young son demonstrated to me that DuckDuckGo gave me what I wanted.
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John Carlos Baez | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c8a24274 - At first I felt DuckDuckGo wasn't as good as Google.  But since Google keeps getting worse I've switched to DuckDuckGo.
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d4911f6d | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @b4c50e1b @c8a24274 I've used DuckDuckGo for a while now, but I don't entirely trust it to stay good. I've seen adverts around for DuckDuckGo Browser, which strikes me as a land-grab rather than a worthwhile project (given that Firefox is already a perfectly acceptable browser, once you change the default search engine). It also promotes this weird conflation of browser and search engine that a lot of people seem to have picked up recently.