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I wonder how much of Linux's recent success (I know it's still a tiny fraction) is just because of Google. I can't imagine using Linux if you take away the abil
by bubblethink 10y ago
I wonder how much of Linux's recent success (I know it's still a tiny fraction) is just because of Google. I can't imagine using Linux if you take away the ability to Google. The fact that usually the results are posts by actual people and not some company stooge makes a world of difference.
- djent 10y agoYou get the same results on DuckDuckGo, etc. there's no search engine lock-in here.
- tajen 10y agoSorry, doesn't DDG use Google as a back-end, just anonymizing the results?
- linkregister 10y agoDDG uses a variety of search engines' responses, including Google's. It has its own crawler as well. https://duck.co/help/results/sources https://duck.co/help/results/sources
- adrianratnapala 10y agoNo tajen, at least the Wikipedia article for DDG gives no hint that it uses the Google backend. Nor had I ever heard of such a thing.