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You Might Want to Think About Changing Your Search Engine…
Just a PSA: Trying to get more information via Google on the shutdown of the free speech rally has resulted in a lot of frustration and very little information. The search term I used was “free speech rally shut down.”
On Google, I got the following first page results:
- CBS News
- WCVB
- CNN
- Telegraph
- NPR
- Boston CBS
- Breitbart (I know, I’m shocked too)
- HuffPo
On Bing, I got the following first page results:
- Conservative Firing Line
- Mic
- TeleSUR
- America’s Watch Tower
- Milo Yiannopoulos
- The Black Loop
- GOP USA
- Boston Globe
- Western Journalism
On DuckDuckGo, I got the following first page results:
- America’s Watch Tower
- Mic
- Milo Yiannopoulos
- TeleSUR
- The Black Loop
- Conservative Firing Line
- Western Journalism
- Boston Globe
- WRKO
- Boston Globe
- Infowars…and more with CNN not showing up until page two.
I’ve already changed all the search engines on my phone and computers.
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Yahoo isn’t too bad.
My sis does SEO writing. Says if you want to be found you need goolag. I’ve switched to DDG.
Me too. I tried DuckDuckGo finally after Damore though I’m reluctant to stop using gmail.
Did you do Bing or DuckDuckGo?
Duck Duck Go is, IMO, the way to…. um…. go.
I ended up doing DDG because the interface is more like Google’s and I’ve never really liked Bing.
Yeah, it’s unfortunate but true. :/
I now have DuckDuckGo. I find Bing to be very limited, and Yahoo has been taken over by the crazies.
Image searchers? Someone mentioned, somewhere, tineye.com.
I’ve used Bing for a long time.
I think Duck Duck Go has become the unofficial search engine of the Ricochetti.
Somewhere I posted that goolag lets you choose sources for its/your news feed. So far, I’ve only blocked NYT and WaPo. It’s refreshing. I haven’t selected any sources, yet.
I think telling google what you want and don’t want might be more effective than boycotting them.
I didn’t even know you could block news sources. On the other hand, the NYT can provide hours of merriment.
If one likes to be depressed. The headlines are soooo twisted.
I can’t remember how I found it out. . . maybe the little gear thing in the corner or “settings” or “preferences.”
DDG is new to me but the ricocheeti have never failed me.
Have you never read a Yahoo news feed?
That’s one of the reasons I use Duck Duck Go, another being it doesn’t collect data on you, track you, and so forth, as Google does.
Thanks for the tip.
You’re not kiddin’. I had hoped that when Verizon bought them, the so-called “news” feed might be cleaned up. But so far it’s still a cesspool.
What’s up with Brendon Eich’s efforts on Brave? I downloaded it awhile ago, but it looks like it just piggy-backs on other search engines (e.g., Google).
The hard part of this is that no search engine gets good results across the board. I usually use Bing or DDG, but sometimes have to go with Goog if I need something technical – the others fall flat.
why re-invent the wheel? The problem is the tracking that Goolag is doing, no? So, if Brave does the Goolag search for you, and keeps your ID to itself, Zuck doesn’t know what you are up to, right?
Brave is only doing the browser, which (unlike Chrome) isn’t tracking where you go. I don’t think they are doing their own search engine. Brave works pretty good, but I have some issues with it because the bookmarks system is not ready for prime time.
Exactly, Brave is based on the Chromium engine (the open-source version of Chrome), but it has a bunch of anti-tracking and ad-blocking built in. It’s competing with Google’s browser (Chrome) rather than Google’s search engine. You can set Brave to use any search engine you like, I use DuckDuckGo.
There was a great interview with Brendan Eich on the Software Engineering Daily podcast. The first half is about a new standard called WebAssembly and very technical, but if you want to skip that part in the 2nd half he talks about his vision for Brave. You can also read the transcript.
I switched to Brave and Duck-Duck-Go after the latest Goolag shenanigans.
Brave is a little twitchy, in that if I leave several tabs open for awhile, there’s a good chance that one or more will become unresponsive and I’ll have to kill the application and start it up again. The upside is that it doesn’t hog system resources like Chrome did (and I switched to Chrome initially because it was less resource-intensive than Internet Explorer).
So far I’m pleased with DDG. For one thing, the first search hit isn’t always Wikipedia, which is refreshing.
I had no idea that you could do that.
I shall always be grateful to Duck Duck Go for pointing me to an important source for a research project that never came up on Goggle or Bing. I began getting fed up with Google when it failed to make interesting banners for important American dates.
On the news page – gear/tool icon/ drop-down: “sources”
Google should be careful. Besides the election of Donald Trump, there are other signs that people are getting really fed up with the left’s shenanigans.
For example, the Univ. of Missouri has been devastated by its administration’s caving into the demands of protesters (remember the Melissa Click incident?). Applications and donations are way down, dorms have been closed, etc.