Google is the “go-to” search engine if you want to be spied upon while hearing the talking points of a generic DC sycophant. If you want to evaluate actual information like an actual adult, Google is shit.
I’ve been using “Duck Duck Go”. I switched years ago. It’s not perfect but I’ve generally been satisfied. I planned to use it forever.
Yesterday “Duck Duck Go” announced it would down rank sites based on their opinion of the Ukraine/Russia situation. Within the hour, I switched to another search engine.
I don’t care what position they chose in a political arena. I only care that they chose a side. They intend to manipulate results on behalf of one side or the other. That’s exactly what they said. There’s no beating around the bush. “We’re going to down rank X and up rank Y.” That’s manipulation; it’s also lying.
Lying serves only one purpose, to manipulate me. What self respecting adult would voluntarily engage with a manipulator?
If a company goes woke it’s dead to me; instantly if possible. Every minute you engage with liars is a minute they’re either messing with your perception or mistreating you. I’m not going to be the victim of their abusive relationship.
Dump ’em and forget about it. Easy peasy. Do it without hesitation.
They’re corporations; You owe them noting. They have no soul, they deserve no loyalty, they are remorseless, and (especially when woke) they’re evil. Don’t get angry with woke corporations. Don’t wring your hands about their loss. Don’t wish they’d perform their duties honorably. Dump them and move on; right away. Never look back. You’ll find you don’t miss them.
I don’t miss the decade of Google’s bullshit that I evaded. I won’t miss the future bullshit of the now inferior Duck Duck Go.
Go woke, I’m gone. It’s an instinctive and perfect reflex. It’s always the right decision.
This is simple basic self care. You’re an adult. You’ve got a mind and soul. You can and should make your own decisions. The minute anyone in your realm chooses to put politics over truth, is the minute they’ve decided to lie to you. From that point forward they literally mean you harm. Act accordingly.
I did the same thing. I immediately deleted DDG from my favorites & went to Brave. We’ll see how that goes, and for how long. They’re search engines; they’re just tools to be used.
Exactly!
Brave uses DDG.
Well, shit. Back to Acme Products to see what other search engines they have, and maybe an anvil.
Startpage.com has been my go-to for awhile. If anyone knows bad juju about them, suggest another, please. Thanks for the Public Forum A C.
Yep, dumped them immediately.
I use Google for pretty much everything except for news. For that I use all the blogs I follow using Feedly, like this one.
That’s cool. I don’t do anything on my part to support feebly. Never heard of it before.
Swisscows (Yep! Really) is another and has a VPN feature which is not free but not expensive either:
https://swisscows.com/?culture=en
Are you sure about “Swisscows”? the reason I ask is there is an icon on the home page asking if you’d like to connect to “Chrome”.
I also dumped DDG immediately. I am open to suggestions as to who to use as I’m not crazy about Brave.
https://scholar.google.com
Used to be pretty good for not news not ads… Haven’t been there in a bit…
Justim
No wonder I love coming here. I did exactly the same thing yesterday.
Waaaaay back when the internet was young, and I used the command line a lot and my browser was Netscape Navigator, I used “Alta Vista” and “Dogpile” as search engines.
I checked out Dogpile yesterday and to my shock it still exists and it worked really well for a few cursory search terms. Almost too well, and I wonder if it is using the evil G these days.
Can anyone suggest a more honest search engine ?
I’m aware of swisscows.com and yandex.com, which might be independent of the usual search engines (haven’t dug into it).
I have a project idea for building my own webcrawler for blogs to build my own search engine of sorts, but it’s way off the bottom end of the “potential project” pile.
I’ve always been skeptical of DDGs claims; they never seemed the independent upstart they claimed to be.
I’ve used Startpage for years, it’s been pretty good.
It’s NOT US based, so its less affected by current politics.
I have been using startpage since DDG went woke.
In uninstalling DDG, remember that you will first need to install your replacement search engine, duplicate any homepage shortcuts you may have through DDG, export your bookmarks to a fileor to your new search engine, and then uninstall DDG. Otherwise, everything linked theough DDG is lost.
I have none of that stuff through DDG. I used it as a search engine and only as a search engine. I’ll do the same with the replacement.
startpage
Thanks! I dumped DDG.