tomas writes: > Part of Google's perceived superiority is that it "learns to know > you": a couple of search terms thrown in, for Google is "search terms > + context", while for DDG, the context is missing.
I wrote: > Google does not "learn to know you" if you block all its scripts and > cookies, which is how I use it. It's still vastly superior to the Duck. Celejar writes: > Well, it could in theory still try to build profiles of searchers via > IP addresses [I understand that this wouldn't be that reliable, due to > things like proxies and NAT]. Do we know for a fact whether it does > [or does not]? I see no evidence that it does, nor do I see any reason why it would bother. At least 99% of its users accept the cookies and scripts. Why would it care about a few weirdos like me given that it wouldn't work very well anyway? -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
