#but also; your search isn't running through google search even on the backend

[screambirdscreaming]

I switched to duckduckgo recently when i tried to google the name of a plant and the entire first page of results was adds for a clothing company.

I had tried to switch before, but kept going back to google because it just had better results. that's not true anymore. duckduckgo has gotten notably better in the past few years, but mostly google has gotten astronomically worse.

(the maps function on duckduckgo is pretty unusable, but OpenStreetMap is better than google maps ever was - it shows you wetlands! and tideflats! and the goddamn exit numbers on the highway!!)

anyway, not to shill, but: ditch google.

we gotta scroll so far for the wikipedia article when we google something now it feels so fucking wrong

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image ID: Tumblr tags reading: #and yes on duckDuckGo wikipedia is usually the first result still #also. my cousin who works at microsoft says that what duckDuckGo is doing at the backend #is running a bing search with your personal information removed #that is: if you used bing; it would try to personalize your results like google does #which duckDuckGo removes #but also; your search isn't running through google search even on the backend #which is notable because So many things use google search as a backend #and while microsoft is not exactly a shining beacon of ethics either #chipping away ag google's monopoly is still worth something #they're very much in the late-monopoly phrase of 'make the service go completely to shit while wringing it dry for cash' #would the pressure of loosing users actually push them to make functional improvements at this point? eeh probably not #but still. use a better search. please #for your own sake #sorry op for doing this on your jokey post >_< /End ID]

we gotta scroll so far for the wikipedia article when we google something now it feels so fucking wrong