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It feels like Google search is already curated. At home I cannot find academic articles which appeared in the search at work, because my girlfriend trained the
by hyeonwho4 7y ago
It feels like Google search is already curated. At home I cannot find academic articles which appeared in the search at work, because my girlfriend trained the home's recommendation engine on searches for cute cat pictures and domestic things. In DuckDuckGo, at least I know I will be able to find the same results for the same search terms no matter where I am.
- ImprovedSilence 7y agoWow, I agree. Lately I've noticed search sometimes just pops in websites just because I visited it from a previous search, relevancy be damned! and it suuuuuucks.
- mcv 7y agoI seem to be able to find a much more limited selection of content than I used to in the past. It used to be that even obscure search queries turned up something useful, but now you either get nothing or the same old big or commercial sites. There has to be tons of content out there that Google just can't seem to find anymore.
- moccachino 7y agoThere was a discussion about exactly that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604135 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19604135 Ironically I could not find this link via DDG, but it was the first hit on Google.
- ImprovedSilence 7y agoMatbe it’s cuz google knows you frequent hacker news....
- moccachino 7y agoI used site:news.ycombinator.com on both engines
- mirimir 7y agoUse a VPN in a private VM.
- hedora 7y agoOr, duck duck go with the g! prefix, if you really must use google with bubbling turned off (instead of a reasonable alternative).
- Nullabillity 7y agoDDG isn't magic. It doesn't bubble you on its own results (or at least it claims not to), but it can't change how external providers behave.
- pferde 7y agoSadly, in this day and age, a good, usable search engine that does not enclose you into your own bubble is magic.
- Forbo 7y agoUsing !s will proxy through Startpage, so you get Google results through an actual search proxy instead of just going to Google (I don't think !g "un-bubbles" anything).
- LilBytes 7y agoUse a VPN in a private VM so you can use Google and get decent search results? Is your response satire? I want to believe it is.
- mirimir 7y agoWhat can I say? I mean, it works. Using Google via VPN services, there are many other users. Occasionally someone's been a jerk, and Google gives you the stinkeye. But then you switch to a different server. I added "private VM" in case OP was sharing a machine with his girlfriend. But really, it's always prudent to use VPNs from dedicated VMs. Because that compartmentalizes tracking. And using VMs also simplifies managing machine state. You can use a fresh clone for each session, for example. Or boot from a static image. I like DDG and StartPage, for sure. But sometimes I just gotta use Google.