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One thing that really helped me stop relying on Google for search was when I realised that I could precede any search on DuckDuckGo with `!g` if I didn't find w
by siquick 10y ago
One thing that really helped me stop relying on Google for search was when I realised that I could precede any search on DuckDuckGo with `!g` if I didn't find what I wanted on DDG and it would switch to encrypted.google.com
"!g my search term"
- Kinnard 10y agoDitto
- xeniak 10y agoPrefixing with !sp will redirect your query to Startpage, which is essentially an anonymous proxy for Google. So Google will still get to log and analyse your search terms, but they will be aggregated with all other users of Startpage - lots of noise.
- siquick 10y agogood stuff, thank you