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What Search Provider do you use? (Poll)
23n1th
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I currently use Duck Duck Go mainly due to privacy concerns with google but was wondering which you guys used and if you had any concerns about privacy issues with some providers.
What Search Provider do you use? (Poll) 61 votes
Google
83%
51 votes
Yahoo
1%
1 vote
Bing
4%
3 votes
Lycos
0%
0 votes
AskJeeves
0%
0 votes
AOL
0%
0 votes
Other (Like Duck Duck Go)
9%
6 votes
0
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I use Google. It works. I get the results that I need. I can also search News results, Images, Maps, etc unlike with DuckDuckGo.
I don't care if Google sees what I search for. What is it going to do? Make adverts more relevant to my needs? OH NO!!! :PHi. I'm a Board Guide on the Gaming, Consumer Rights, Ebay and Praise/Vent boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Board guides are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an abusive or illegal post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with abuse). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com0 -
Google here.
I search for random things most of the time so good luck to them trying to pin down my preferences.:wall: Flagellation, necrophilia and bestiality - Am I flogging a dead horse? :wall:
Any posts are my opinion and only that. Please read at your own risk.0 -
Actually you can search News results, Images, Maps, etc through Duck Duck Go. I used to use Scroogle but that breaks occasionally because of google.
I'd rather not have any advertising at all or a profile built about me. Thats why I use firefox with various addons for privacy.0 -
Three guesses which one I use.
What do you see as the 'privacy issues'?0 -
IxQuick is better than Duck Duck Go.0
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Notmyrealname wrote: »IxQuick is better than Duck Duck Go.
Heard of them not tried them. Will add them to firefox if thats possible.0 -
Three guesses which one I use.
What do you see as the 'privacy issues'?
This isw a tougue in cheek way of explaining it: http://donttrack.us/
Plus once the profile is built on you your search results are biased (tainted by your profile). For example my profile will be different from yours. If we were to search for the same thing our search results would be different. This explains it: http://dontbubble.us/
A less simplified version curtsey of notmyrealname: https://www.ixquick.com/eng/protect-privacy.html0 -
Happy to be corrected, but I don't think that's the case.Notmyrealname wrote: »Google logs what you search for and that data is for sale. Its quite interesting to see just how much Google do know about a person.
Google can say to advertising companies "We can target your adverts to this specific set of people who search for x, y, and z", and use that information to do so. But they don't sell the information to 3rd parties.
They may make available stats like "70% of searches for Hello Kitty came from Japan", but nothing that could tie it down to a person.0
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