With this browser.
Posted on 06/08/2020 8:41:52 PM PDT by martin_fierro
...Enter DuckDuckGo
That’s what Sacconaghi thinks.
He also thinks that Apple should invest in its own search service to replace Google – and sees DuckDuckGo as a good option.
The analyst argues that Apple could acquire DuckDuckGo for around $1 billion, in exchange for which it would get its own search engine, access to ads revenue and would be able to apply these technologies across the system.
DuckDuckGo is the fourth most popular search engine in the U.S.
Apple would also be able to double down on its focus on privacy, and would be giving tens of millions of users a viable search alternative.
With this thought in mind it is interesting that DuckDuckGo is currently recruiting iOS engineers, and is also in talks with the U.S. DOJ as part of an investigation of Google’s alleged anti-competitive practises.
What’s really important here is how vital Apple’s traffic is to Google. A report last year explained:
“Between mobile and desktop Safari, Apple browsers produced 49% of Google clicks.”
(Excerpt) Read more at applemust.com ...
With this browser.
I started using DDG in 2017 as Google was starting to ramp up their censorship and manipulation of search data, particularly auto-complete and first page listings. It seemed it was like Don’t Be Evil Google mid 2000’s with the search results, including getting BB, GWP, and Infowars. It only changed marginally through most of 2019, with roughly 50/50 favorable/unfavorable top listing order.
Then when the impeachment proceeding started, the search results were suddenly trending commie, though exact matches still brought up the sites. But if they go to Apple, the WILL remove its privacy filters, or at least modify it for their Democrat/Chinese overlords, and essentially become another Google.
And if Trump loses, we lose the Internet as we know it by 2022 or so, where conservative sites will be throttled and if domain registration gets regulated, they may even appropriate all the names that they consider “problematic.” In short, doom.
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Will eliminate one way to hide from the surveillance state. Apple will take all of the archived supposedly “private searches” and sell them, either to law enforcement or those who will mine the data.
I remember Apple’s first browser - Cyberdog. The mascot resembled the one used by Dogpile.
I’ve always used duck, duck go.
“I use Apple and Qwant. Duck-whatever is too liberal and clunky.”
Apple is the most liberal company and you CALL DDG liberal?? You do realize most people like myself DONT USE that search engine but it’s a damn browser used strictly for it’s one endearing feature: PRIVACY.
No trackers. Period. I know which sites to go to AND RARELY USE DDG SEARCH.
I agree. It was a mind-blower at the time. Kind of a shame it didn’t hold its top position, but it was always kind of a demo for the Alpha CPU, as week as a search engine in and of itself. When DEC was bought by Compaq and they screwed up the simple interface trying to become a shopping portal, it was clear the end was inevitable. It never recovered.
Sic transit.
At twenty past two in the morning, you had me doing a spit take with my iced tea.
I though that DuckDuckGo just anonymized requests to Google’s search engine.
All I want is a search engine like Google was back until they got really political around 2012 and then screwed the algorithm.
It isn’t just that google is political and creepy, it is that their basic product utterly sucks now.
The quality of search results has never been worse. Nothing you can do, quotes etc, improves it. Sometimes I search for something I KNOW exists and I have seen it before...now it take rejiggering my search terms 4 or 5 times and even then, usually I do not find what I wanted.
Often the search results are so for away from the obvious search terms that it is head shaking in its failure.
Other times it is overtly politically skewed.
If someone basically duplicated the Google of circa 2011-2012, they would destroy google.
Biden looks like a platypus in that shot.
AOL maybe. AltaVista was the first really good one, was comprehensively destroyed by Google in a very short time.
Hands down better than any other search engine out there... Not even close...
The only hiccup occurred some eight-to-ten (?) years ago when Google made major changes to it's underlying engine and for a short time refused to give DDG back its access to the redesigned engine... As I remember, that lasted for just a week or two...
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