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You can't have personalized, targeted results without being tracked.
by ipidov 8y ago
You can't have personalized, targeted results without being tracked.
- nukeop 8y agoPersonalized and targeted results aren't good results.
- ipidov 8y agoDidn't say they are, but I have a feeling that this is exactly what the original commenter is missing
- erinnh 8y agoI have the same issue where DDG sometimes just doesn't give relevant search results. That's when I use Google. But I also use temporary containers and no google accounts, so I'm not getting personalized results and they're still better.
- rovr138 8y agoThe fact someone doesn’t have an account does not mean they aren’t being tracked or that google (or any platform) can’t create a profile for you. Not saying it’s effective with the containers you’re using though.
- fluffycat 8y agoI beg to differ, they are actually essential in my case.
- DoingIsLearning 8y agoPerhaps I am alone in this but but all I want is a really really good crawler that can find the exact subset of results containing all of the keywords I query. Regional/targeted/personalized results often add noise. I appreciate that this is what google needs in order to monetize on ads. And that real verbatim searches are likely more resource hungry. I just wish there was an option to pay some form premium subscription service where I can have really in depth verbatim search without being treated as 'suspicious' activity by the engine.
- prepend 8y agoI would like a service that just keeps an up to date corpus of the web. Or at least the top few terabytes. Then I can pay the few dollars a month to run a giant map reduce grep on it. For most of my searches, debugging a few specific strings, I really just need grep. It’s too much for one person to crawl the web. But a good distributed network could.