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Whether this claim is true nor not, Google is able to pull such a move due to its monopoly. Most of us are against monopolies but don’t care about Google’s cent
by emrehan 7y ago
Whether this claim is true nor not, Google is able to pull such a move due to its monopoly. Most of us are against monopolies but don’t care about Google’s central position on our precious Internet. We should act up though. One day, it could be too late.
I’ve been using DDG for around a year now after numerous failed attempts in the past. I, too, had been frustrated with some search results, but I don’t miss Google anymore at all thanks to the bangs feature.
It is not obvious but DDG has a learning curve. You should re-learn the practice of “Googling skill” that we had to have years ago. I could even guess which queries DDG would fail to bring meaningful results before hitting enter now. In these cases I add a “!s” bang for https://startpage.com https://startpage.com — a privacy conscious Google proxy.
DDG bangs are especially useful on iOS, where you could type a query from any page and only have 3 options: Search in the Web/App Store/Maps. If the search engine is DDG though, you could search your query in any website you know its bang with just a single step.
- jacquesm 7y agoWhy on earth is this comment downvoted?
- reaperducer 7y agoA fair number of HN users work for said monopoly.
- jacquesm 7y agoWould be nice if they participated but refrained from voting.
- marcoseliziario 7y agoNot sure if is that the case. HN sometimes likes to downvote things randomly, for no discernible reason at all.
- fbonetti 7y agoThere’s a difference between being the dominant player in an industry and having a monopoly. Consumers overwhelmingly prefer Google because it’s the best search engine, period. The second that changes, users will switch to something else. Remember that AOL, Yahoo, and MySpace “monopolized” the internet not that long ago. There were hysterical articles in the mid 2000s speculating on whether or not these companies had a “cyber monopoly”. I doubt you think those companies are still the dominant players on the internet...
- throw55443h 7y agoStartpage seems to have been bought by an ad company. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577