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

Tom Henderson thenderson at extremelabs.com
Fri Oct 19 02:40:39 UTC 2018


+1

On 10/18/18 9:29 PM, Lynn Greiner wrote:
> 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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