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Why you should go to DuckDuckGo and totally ignore Google.

Vayra86 said:
I've always wondered why there is no Windows-ey 'BING!' sound that comes with each successfull search result. That'd be hilarious
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You would never hear it!
 
FordGT90Concept said:
I just removed Google DNSs from my router.
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How? I use an ASUS router

er557 said:
I'm not switching away from google, i find it the best IT information and tech questions solutions finder, be it community forums, knowledgebases, downloads, maybe simply because it has the most users, and automatically pools more info.
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INSTG8R said:
Been using it on all my devices for years. Google is literally marked untrusted.
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This morning, I was just waking up and decided to browse over into my C drive and check out Google.
(show hidden files and folders on) ... Windows 7 64bit.
C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data
So I started opening up crash reports... and so on (EVERYTHING, open with Microsoft Word). I ended up seeing websites that I HAVE visited but never visit. I have all kinds of settings turned off in Google settings.. feed back, send data, Privacy settings and results I opt out of.. etc all turned off. So why is all of these things ( I can't show you as I have deleted it all sorry!) keeping track of comments others have made on youtube pages I visit, or websites I went to months ago? My computer is a database for Google. (So is yours if you look)

It seems sporadic.

Because of that, I started going through my bookmarks and deleted a couple until I clicked GPUz link (this site) and decided to wake up, close all of that and see what's new here.... came across this thread and ironically here I am.

I also don't like the way Google is run. YouTube is out of control (people making way to much money for videos that should cause accounts to be banned).
 
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Good3alz said:
How? I use an ASUS router



This morning, I was just waking up and decided to browse over into my C drive and check out Google.
(show hidden files and folders on) ... Windows 7 64bit.
C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data
So I started opening up crash reports... and so on. I ended up seeing websites that I HAVE visited but never visit. I have all kinds of settings turned off.. feed back, send data.. etc all turned off. So why is all of these things ( I can't show you as I have deleted it all sorry!) keeping track of comments others have made on youtube pages I visit, or websites I went to months ago?

Because of that, I started going through my bookmarks and deleted a couple until I clicked Gpuz link (this site) and decided to wake up, close all of that and see what's new here.... came across this thread and ironically here I am.
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Goat bless you
 
Eskimonster said:
I was being polite.
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That makes more sense, I've actually had technically challenged people tell me the search on their computer was broken because they couldn't get any usable search results, only to find out that some sort of update had changed their default search from google to bing.

rtwjunkie said:
If you say so. It’s only your opinion.
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You are right it is my opinion but it is also the opinion of most the people I have ever discussed the topic with. You may be literally the only person I have have heard of that claims Bing gives them good search results. If it works for you then great. I really tried to use it, they even had offered some sort of rewards program to use it. I couldn't do it. It was so bad!
 
Zareek said:
You may be literally the only person I have have heard of that claims Bing gives them good search results. If it works for you then great.
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Whether it is just me or many, and the numbers (5 or so percent) speak to millions, it speaks to people having their own mind. That’s great you don’t like it, and I can respect that opinion. I do though, and it gives me fine results without having to submit to the biased results that the google monster gives.

To be honest, the primary factor most people who don’t use Bing is not their search results, it is the fact it comes from MS, which most people don’t trust. This is a point I noticed @lexluthermiester made in another thread.

Funnily enough, although it is a fair point, those same people don’t see the irony of trusting Google, which has just as bad a history.
 
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rtwjunkie said:
Whether it is just me or many, and the numbers (5 or so percent) speak to millions, it speaks to people having their own mind. That’s great you don’t like it. I do and it gives me fine results without having to submit to the biased results that the google monster gives.

To be honest, the primary factor most people who don’t use Bing is not their search results, it is the fact it comes from MS, which most people don’t trust. This is a point I noticed @lexluthermiester made in another thread.

Funnily enough, although it is a fair point, those same people don’t see the irony of trusting Google, which has just as bad a history.
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I don't disagree that google has slowly been pumping in bias. While I agree many people are more biased toward MS than Google, I don't agree that is the reason Bing isn't being used. Most people will take the easiest path toward their goal. If that goal is searching the internet and Edge is their default browser and Bing the default search engine, that is what they will use. Same with Google on their phone. If they are using Windows and not searching with Bing they are going out of their way to not use Bing. I in fact believe that most of that 5% that use Bing are using it because that is the default. They are not making a choice to specifically use Bing. You obviously are and it works for you, excellent.
 
Well excuse me for saying, i never heard anyone saying they use Bing nor Egde for they needs.
Beside this thread ofc.
 
Eskimonster said:
Well excuse me for saying, i never heard anyone saying they use Bing nor Egde for they needs.
Beside this thread ofc.
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I use Edge, not Bing so much. Not even sure what everyone needs in a browser besides what's on Edge (nor do I see why MS decided to migrate to Chrome themselves now). I never understood the pickiness with browsers at all tbh.. except in the "Mosaic vs Lynx" days. I mean, the differences are very negligible at this point.
 
StrayKAT said:
I use Edge, not Bing so much. Not even sure what everyone needs in a browser besides what's on Edge (nor do I see why MS decided to migrate to Chrome themselves now). I never understood the pickiness with browsers at all tbh.. except in the "Mosaic vs Lynx" days. I mean, the differences are very negligible at this point.
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I disagree,i use firefox for the open source and i have so in many years.
Tampermonkey is one of my fave and alike.
 
Eskimonster said:
I disagree,i use firefox for the open source and i have so in many years.
Tampermonkey is one of my fave and alike.
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What does Tampermonkey do exactly? It seems like a dev tool... which is far from what I/average users need. That's kind of all I meant. It seems that the most user friendly features and extensions are available for any browser (pop up blockers, downloaders, spellcheckers, translators).

The one thing I do like about Firefox though is that the old Netscape Profile manager is still in it.
 
StrayKAT said:
What does Tampermonkey do exactly? It seems like a dev tool... which is far from what I/average users need. That's kind of all I meant. It seems that the most user friendly features and extensions are available for any browser (pop up blockers, downloaders, spellcheckers, translators).

The one thing I do like about Firefox though is that the old Netscape Profile manager is still in it.
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[Tampermonkey is the most popular userscript manager, with over 10 million weekly users. It's available for Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera Next and Firefox. ]
I use it for creating scripts in the olden days, now i use scripts made by others mostly.
Now lotsa browsers can use it tho.
 
Eskimonster said:
[Tampermonkey is the most popular userscript manager, with over 10 million weekly users. It's available for Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, Opera Next and Firefox. ]
I use it for creating scripts in the olden days, now i use scripts made by others mostly.
Now lotsa browsers can use it tho.
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Oh, I didn't know it was for Edge and Safari too. Goes to show though that all of them seem to have the basics down. Which brings me to my point again: I don't understand the browser wars at all. It's probably more homogeneous than it's ever been, give or take a few platform specific features (like uploading cloud settings, etc).
 
i stick with the inventors, i dont use wannabees :)
 
Eskimonster said:
i stick with the inventors, i dont use wannabees :)
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Who would that be? Firefox? Brendan Eich created javascript so he definitely has oldschool inventor cred.. but they fired him anyways due to his politics (seems he went to make Brave though).

I don't know who else is around that was part of inventing the browser based internet. Seems like they're all retired or lowkey.
 
StrayKAT said:
Who would that be? Firefox? Brendan Eich created javascript so he definitely has oldschool inventor cred.. but they fired him anyways due to his politics (seems he went to make Brave though).

I don't know who else is around that was part of inventing the browser based internet. Seems like they're all retired or lowkey.
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for long long time ago FF was the thing you wanted if you made codes or hacks, now adays the differences is to small to mention.
I use it becorse ive always used it, i took my IT education 20 years ago.
 
Countryside said:
Yeah, and i think it's unlikely that the switch to chromium will help them much because users will use the browser that they are accustomed to.

But the growing amount of chromium based browsers is worrying.
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MS needs a good browser for businesses. One they can shape for their O365 services, and one that gives corporate control and support. Google already has a history of messing with MS on the web.

Right now, I have IE, FF, Chrome, and Edge on my work machine. Some intranet stuff will only work on one of the above. It’s a real treat, I tell ya.
 
I also use Opera,my FF is so modded that my national TV wont display on it , corse it says im abroad :)
Only adds i ever see is actually here on TPU.
 
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Countryside said:
But the growing amount of chromium based browsers is worrying.
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curious why chromium has anything to do with it. The chromium project was created by google, but chromium is open source. You can make modifications and compile it yourself with or without whatever you want.
 
Solaris17 said:
curious why chromium has anything to do with it. The chromium project was created by google, but chromium is open source. You can make modifications and compile it yourself with or without whatever you want.
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Market Dominance

With Chromium taking so much market share, it’s easy to imagine competition slowing down and browser technology getting less diverse.
 
I've just stuck with Chrome, so it seems I might have to try another search engine... I take it, it's work safe and such like?? :)
 
I use Open/cisco umbrella dns.

Everyone also should watch the veritas vid and also ted cruz grilling them.
 
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