[Ipg-smz] Is DuckDuckGo a future star or flash in the pan?

[Tom Henderson]

When I divorced Google long ago, DuckDuckGo was about the only choice. 
You can proxy search via DDG to Google if you'd like

I don't necessarily believe google gives the best results all of the 
time. Google has trained your brain in some ways. And admittedly, 
Google's bots crawl sites more frequently and have a greater reach.

I try to never use Google, although in my volunteer work, it's 
necessary, and I carry an Android phone.

Blah.

Tom


On 10/18/18 6:55 PM, Andy Patrizio wrote:
> Well I am already losing patience with it. It can't find a lot of things
> that Google puts at the top of the results. I want my privacy but I also
> want an answer.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ipg-smz [mailto:ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org] On Behalf Of Lynn
> Greiner
> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 8:16 AM
> To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
> Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Is DuckDuckGo a future star or flash in the pan?
>
> I do too. Even Ann Cavoukian and other privacy gurus approve of it (tho I
> must admit, I told Ann about it during a Twitter chat we were having about
> being stalked by search engines).
>
> Google may be at risk of losing their brand trademark because it's becoming
> a generic term, much as Kimberley Clark almost lost Kleenex - they had a
> funny campaign in Writer's Digest a few years ago reminding people that
> Kleenex is a trademarked brand, not a generic term for tissue.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Daniel Dern
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 3:12 PM
> To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
> Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Is DuckDuckGo a future star or flash in the pan?
>
>
> That's the search engine I use, by default, having learned about it from my
> SO.
>
> The big challenge, IMHO, is that "google" has become a lower-case general
> term.
>
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