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personalized results are the only reason i, and many others like me, use google. if ddg offered them, i would use ddg.
by kmlx 5y ago
personalized results are the only reason i, and many others like me, use google. if ddg offered them, i would use ddg.
- bserge 5y agoI used to think the same, but it only results in you going deeper into your own well as Google keeps pushing more of the same shit instead of getting something new/fresh. It also happens on YouTube.
- realusername 5y agoYouTube could be so great, there's tons of great content out there waiting to be seen, it's just impossible to find, the recommendations are complete garbage.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y agoSo true. "YouTube search" is not where the money is; it's "recommendations" and "viral videos" that advertising requires. That is the company's priority. If YouTube represents state-of-the-art in "personalisation", that's a very low bar for "improvement" over manual search. Absolute garbage. It reminds me of paid placement in the Alta Vista era because "recommended" results are interpersed with the legitimate search results.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y agoI would think the reason people use DDG is because DDG does not "personalise" results. In other words, people choose DDG because DDG's defaults are in this respect unlike Google's.
- mrweasel 5y agoWhat is it you get from personalized? I’ve used DDG for 6 years now, and I don’t really understand what I’m missing out on. We’re at a point where if DDG can’t find something, then neither can Google.
- sollewitt 5y agoDDG is just white-labelled Bing. Go to bing.com, they'll do personalized results.
- manmal 5y agoDDG does not forward user data (IP etc) to bing AFAIK. I see it as a reverse proxy to bing.
- ColinHayhurst 5y agoWhat do Bing syndicates say/not say/write? Ecosia: https://info.ecosia.org/privacy https://info.ecosia.org/privacy - IP address (obfuscated), user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting. - Additionally, by default Ecosia sets a Bing-specific “Client ID” parameter to improve the quality of your search results. If your browser has “Do Not Track” enabled, we disable the “Client ID” automatically. Qwant: https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/confidentialite/ https://about.qwant.com/en/legal/confidentialite/ – The first three bytes of your IP address; – A salted hash generated from: your IP address, your User Agent and a salt that changes at least every 3 months. Neeva https://neeva.com/privacy https://neeva.com/privacy - I heard that they pass first 3 octets of IP (as I have heard from others seeking syndication with Microsoft) - edit: CEO Sridhar explains that in this podcast (40 minutes in) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recode-decode-sridhar-ramaswamy/id1011668648?i=1000480087638 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recode-decode-sridhar-... DDG https://duckduckgo.com/privacy https://duckduckgo.com/privacy - Not declared but say "What search engines generally do when they anonymize data is get rid of part of your IP address or turn it into something that doesn't look exactly like an IP address." Self-disclosure: CEO of Mojeek search engine
- manmal 5y agoGreat answer, thank you!
- tirpen 5y agoThat's amusing. Personalized results are the reason I stopped using Google and switched to DDG, this option might actually make me give Google another try.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y ago"personalized results are the only reason, i ... use google" Bing and some other search engines offer personalised results, too.