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@DJDarren@thelemmy.club to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet

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Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.
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    use duckduckgo.com.

    • @DJDarren@thelemmy.clubOP
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      You mean https://duckduckgo.com?

      The first thing I change when I open up a new browser for the first time is change the default search from Google to DDG.

      • @Tibert@jlai.lu
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        Don’t use duckduck.com it may not lead to the expected result.

        • N3Cr0
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          It offers better results to me than Google does. Especially the image search.

          IMHO the only controversial thing is that duckduckgo also lists reddit posts - which I’d actually like to avoid.

          • @Tibert@jlai.lu
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            I’m not talking about duckduckgo. Don’t use duckduck.com. Use duckduckgo.com

            And for reddit posts, as much as I want Lemmy to succeed, I cannot ignore reddit.

            Sometimes an answer I’m looking for is there hidded between useless comments (if it hasn’t been deleted or overwritten by the user).

        • @Docus@lemmy.world
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          1. Why?

          2. Google sure as hell does not lead to the desired result, so don’t use that?

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            You did not understood what I said lol. Don’t use duckduck.com. Use duckduckgo.com

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              i changed my mistake, we got it now.

      • @avater@lemmy.world
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        for fucks sake this damn autocorrect. sorry yeah of course I meant duckduckgo 😅

    • Jose
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      StarPage and Brave Search is also good.

    • @EvilBit@lemmy.world
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      Yeah that’s a no-go for me.

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