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minus-squareBeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoHang on now. I’m shopping on the Internet because I don’t know how to buy stuff in real life. How am I supposed to not use Google?
minus-squareMadzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoGo into your browser settings and pick a search engine thats not google Im currently using DuckDuckGo No ai I used Ecosia for years up until recently. everyone has a preference, but there are plenty of other options.
minus-squareGalacticRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoDoesn’t DDG literally just feed it through Bing instead? And Google is able to harvest your information in a million other ways, literally from you simply going to a website.
minus-squarediaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoWell IDK, I tried Bing directly a few times and it would just grab one of the keywords in the query and then completely ignore the others. Unless it’s a conspiracy of the big DuckDuckGo with Macroslop…
minus-squareGalacticRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoSo far my experience with DDG is it’s not exactly great at searching either.
Hang on now. I’m shopping on the Internet because I don’t know how to buy stuff in real life.
How am I supposed to not use Google?
Go into your browser settings and pick a search engine thats not google
Im currently using DuckDuckGo No ai
I used Ecosia for years up until recently. everyone has a preference, but there are plenty of other options.
Doesn’t DDG literally just feed it through Bing instead?
And Google is able to harvest your information in a million other ways, literally from you simply going to a website.
Well IDK, I tried Bing directly a few times and it would just grab one of the keywords in the query and then completely ignore the others. Unless it’s a conspiracy of the big DuckDuckGo with Macroslop…
So far my experience with DDG is it’s not exactly great at searching either.