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Does anyone use Google search anymore? I would have thought people had got wise to the tracking and use something else, like e.g. duckduckgo

psyc 4y ago
Hardly ever. I switched everything to Bing some time ago. If I feel I’m missing something I try Yandex. I hear Brave is good, and Kagi and Neeva may be interesting newcomers. Even if Google were on par with Bing (which I don’t find it is, but my interests may differ from the average HN case) I’d still want to see the company burn for its betrayal of its own mission, of the internet, and of humanity (I mean why not, while I’m being dramatic). From “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, to “to present a peep-hole sized view of the world, where said view best suits the values and interests of Google and its sponsors.” I hate Google because I stumbled on it in 1998 and it was sheer magic, but now it’s 1997 again. They were a really, really good company and deserved all the success. Too good to survive becoming a public megacorp. It’s like how people are sadder when the bright young student full of promise and dreams falls into drugs and alcohol and ruin, than when it happens to the one who was always a delinquent since they were four.
FrozenSynapse 4y ago
who cares about what you search?
- marginalia_nu 4y ago
  Advertisers would love to know what you search.
  - fsflover 4y ago
    Also, the government, if you are in the opposition.
askvictor 4y ago
I switched to using DDG for the last few months, and unfortunately it's even worse than Google is. I mainly search for technical/programming purposes; as an example, DDG rarely if ever links to anything on docs.python.org (the canonical reference for python), compared to Google where the relevant page is usually in the top 5. For other domains they might be comparable though.
mountainriver 4y ago
Yup I do, tried the other search engines, they aren’t as good. Google still gets me what I need with relative ease. I would totally pay to have the ads removed

psyc 4y ago

Hardly ever. I switched everything to Bing some time ago. If I feel I’m missing something I try Yandex. I hear Brave is good, and Kagi and Neeva may be interesting newcomers. Even if Google were on par with Bing (which I don’t find it is, but my interests may differ from the average HN case) I’d still want to see the company burn for its betrayal of its own mission, of the internet, and of humanity (I mean why not, while I’m being dramatic). From “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”, to “to present a peep-hole sized view of the world, where said view best suits the values and interests of Google and its sponsors.” I hate Google because I stumbled on it in 1998 and it was sheer magic, but now it’s 1997 again. They were a really, really good company and deserved all the success. Too good to survive becoming a public megacorp. It’s like how people are sadder when the bright young student full of promise and dreams falls into drugs and alcohol and ruin, than when it happens to the one who was always a delinquent since they were four.

FrozenSynapse 4y ago

who cares about what you search?

marginalia_nu 4y ago
Advertisers would love to know what you search.
- fsflover 4y ago
  Also, the government, if you are in the opposition.

askvictor 4y ago

I switched to using DDG for the last few months, and unfortunately it's even worse than Google is. I mainly search for technical/programming purposes; as an example, DDG rarely if ever links to anything on docs.python.org (the canonical reference for python), compared to Google where the relevant page is usually in the top 5. For other domains they might be comparable though.

mountainriver 4y ago

Yup I do, tried the other search engines, they aren’t as good. Google still gets me what I need with relative ease. I would totally pay to have the ads removed