> A friend of mine, biologist, heavily relying on Google search for her >work, once told me that when she worked from home, the search results >for exactly the same terms turned up totally different results (somehow >less related to biology, she felt). Once I explained her how that >works, I think Google has one user less and DDG one more :-)
I've tried the Duck. Great idea, but it's inadequate. Just block Google's cookies and scripts and it works fine. They don't rank stuff higher for money: their predecessors got caught doing that and it's one of the reasons Google succeeded (they have ads, of course: it's how they pay for the service). What their software *does* do, assuming that you allow their cookies and script, is try to learn your preferences so that it can take what it thinks are your interests into account when ordering search results. This works pretty well for the average user who is really only interested in major league sports and celebrities. -- John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com Elmwood, WI USA
