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Re: Google vs. DDG (was: Social-media antipathy)



On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:49:10AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:02:19 +0100
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 09:46:53AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> > > [...] And I do usually access Google without being logged in, with
> > > most cookies blocked, NoScript, etc., so in general it has much less
> > > (not zero, of course) "context" with regard to me than it does in
> > > general.
> > 
> > Hm. Good point [...]

> It's certainly hard to know how the search engine black boxes really
> work inside, but it's also possible that all the money / engineers that
> Google has to throw at the problem of search actually add value to its
> solutions ;)
> 
> > Could you give an example where DDG fails and Google succeeds?
> 
> I'll keep an eye out. My primary issue was with certain foreign language
> content - and not one of the top thirty on this list:
> 
> https://www.vistawide.com/languages/top_30_languages.htm

I see. Unfortunately, all the languages I know a bit about are
in there :-(

> I just checked my browser settings, and I discovered that somehow my
> privacy settings have slipped and gotten much laxer. I've just
> corrected that, though, so we'll see how things go going forward.

Browsers do that. They are like this :-/

Cheers
 - t

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