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You are unusual. Most people actually don't want extra steps like going to a calculator site to perform calculations. Those things are especially annoying when
by diego 13y ago
You are unusual. Most people actually don't want extra steps like going to a calculator site to perform calculations. Those things are especially annoying when on mobile.
It's true however that most people do not want the search engine to know much about them. Interestingly, most user do notice (and complain) if a search engine stops using personalization and localization. When given the choice between more privacy or better results, the vast majority opt for better results.
- marssaxman 13y agoMaybe I am unusual, but I find half-clever systems intensely irritating. Give me simple stupid software that actually works over someone's overly complicated algorithm that guesses wrong half the time and thereby gets in the way of whatever I was actually trying to do. I have no idea what personalized results look like, to be honest. I switched to Google in part because they didn't pester me to log in like many of the other search engines at the time; now that Google has succumbed to login disease I've moved on to duckduckgo.