Saturday, October 13, 2018

Google Search Competitor Reaches 30 Million Searches Per Day

This is going to be interesting. There is a lot of Google hate out there.

Google Search competitor DuckDuckGo has reached 30 million searches per day.
“You deserve privacy. Companies are making money off of your private information online without your consent. At DuckDuckGo, we don’t think the Internet should feel so creepy and getting the privacy you deserve online should be as simple as closing the blinds,” appears on the about page of  the search engine. “Too many people believe that you simply can’t expect privacy on the Internet. We disagree and have made it our mission to set a new standard of trust online.”

“To make any real progress in advancing data privacy this year, we have to start doing something about Google and Facebook. Not doing so would be like trying to lose weight without changing your diet. Simply ineffective,” declared DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg in an op-ed for CNBC this year. “The impact these two companies have on our privacy cannot be understated.”

-RW 

6 comments:

  1. I haven't used Google in months. I consider it my patriotic duty.

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    1. I agree and when I started using DDG I would compare searches for the first few weeks and it was clear Google tweaked their results

      Never looking back

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  2. Very cool. I have been using duckduckgo for a few months now.

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  3. keep it up ddg down with censorship

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  4. Some others worth a try:
    https://search.disconnect.me/
    http://goodgopher.com/
    https://searx.me/

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  5. Been using DDG for several years, never use Google anymore.

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