My first experiences were with Google. Tracking issues were not on my mind at that time but I increasingly became irritated at having to dig through a mountain of useless links, especially when it became obvious to me I was having to sift out paid for links that were top of the list.
Dogpile was the first search engine that I gave a trial and
It became my go-to for a year or two. Then I gave DuckDuckGo a test run when it hit the net. Excellent performance and excellent privacy policy
Every new mobile device or computer I get, the first setup I do is to set DuckDuckGo as the default search engine and for computers, use DuckDuckGo as the homepage.
Good to hear these comments, Hootowl. Let’s hope DuckDuckGo is here to stay!
Slowly but surely the Big Tech companies are attracting meaningful competition. One day, Google’s search engine will have to become a cash cow — maybe it even is today.
All of them want to become e-commerce-to-brick-and-mortar players like Amazon is becoming. One of benefits of large corporations is they become attractive companies for the Tech companies to sell to because big, all-encompassing deals can be worked out.
Small business accounts are not so easy to attract for these digital players.