-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 10:31:39AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > tomas writes: > > There sure are other options. At first you've to get used to it, > > because part of Google's better hit rate stems from the fact that they > > know you (which, while from a purely technical POV is a Good Thing, > > from a societal POV is a disaster, IMHO). > > I use Google Search a lot, but they don't "know" me: no cookies and no > scripts. I've tried allowing their scripts and cookies and find that I > prefer their search engine vanilla.
That's good :-) Still they *can* know more than you care about: IP address tracking plus browser fingerprinting (plus the fact that they have their bugs in most of the web pages out there) go a long way. Don't get me wrong: I'm not talking paranoia here. Paranoia is unhealthy, and once you realize you're losing sleep over it, you should just stop caring. But I don't want to make their job (which is sticking their nose in my private affairs) all too easy. And a diversity of approaches is, I think, key. > I do miss the ability to create complex search expressions as was > possible with AltaVista, though. Yes. Especially this "documents similar to these", which allowed to refine a search was gold. Cheers - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlqTwZcACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbo2QCfS9JMaitCSTWhgv4hmMvP0XAk qjYAnRifeMAAqH9GXmvqLJi31kv2MNdr =Azek -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
