On 06/06/2019 21:51, John Hasler wrote:
>> 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.
>
Thanks for the tip here on blocking google cookies and scripts, not
quite sure how to do that, so I will look in to it.
Paul
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