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

[Lynn Greiner]

I carry an Android phone too, logged in with a dummy Google account that I
use for nothing else. And I use Firefox and DDG on the phone as well as on
my PC.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ipg-smz <ipg-smz-bounces at netpress.org> On Behalf Of Tom Henderson
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 9:24 PM
To: ipg-smz at netpress.org
Subject: Re: [Ipg-smz] Is DuckDuckGo a future star or flash in the pan?

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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