• The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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        1 year ago

        They are receiving billions so that their users use Google search - why is this a question?

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            1 year ago

            No. That would be if they set up Apple Search and sent some or all of the resulting data to Google.

            This is much worse. They don’t have to do any work, and so they have no control over what data their devices give Google.

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      1 year ago

      I’d prefer something more secure but all of them just suck. I use DDG but more than half the time I end up needing to use !g to get the google results because DDG just isn’t that good.

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        1 year ago

        DDG is also a for profit venture and uses privacy more as a marketing ploy. They’ve been caught allowing Microsoft trackers.

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        1 year ago

        Ive been using bing and bing copilot more and more for general stuff these last few months. Google needs to up their game. Other than that I use ddg as my first point of call

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          DDG largely uses the Bing API anyway so there’s no reason to use Bing itself over DDG. Bing is as bad or worse than Google for privacy.

          I’m going to keep using DDG just out of principle and hope that their own crawler continues to get up to speed. They’ve definitely gotten better over the years but still leave a lot to be desired for search.