[Ilugc] Bid ByeBye to Google Search, say DuckDuckGo!

[Parin Sharma]

On 12/16/10, balaji sivanath <starbala2008 at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>
> i didnt get any strong reason to switch from google to duckduckgo.
> what are the things google lacks which ddg gives?

Google lacks

1.privacy it tracks everything even when you aren't logged in your IP
addresses are stored in their db see [1]

2. lots of goodies at [2] for example !bang feature which lets you
search stuff directly over a website like you can search for Debian
packages like !dpackages <package-name> and more such at [3]


>i have mail,documents,photos..etc on google various products,how can i switch
> instantly from google to ddg.
>
well if you care about your privacy you have to come out this Google
cloud otherwise your privacy is at stake someway or the other!



[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/10/search-engines-protect-privacy-outbound-https
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/goodies.html
[3] https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html

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