Google Chrome - whats the reason to have it

Missli

martinthebandit wrote: »

I used to use ixquick but have now moved on to duckduckgo, it reminds of how google used to be when it was good.

http://duckduckgo.com/

I installed duckduckgo, but read somewhere they used the bing engine? Its what put me off. Please correct me if mistaken, as would like clarified.

-TangleFoot-

GeoffX wrote: »

You might not be aware that Google uses Chrome to gather information about every site you visit. When it is started it establishes a connection to Google's servers and transmits the URLs home.

Your ISP is likely to be doing much the same thing. If you're that worried I suggest tunneling.

martinthebandit

Missli wrote: »

I installed duckduckgo, but read somewhere they used the bing engine? Its what put me off. Please correct me if mistaken, as would like clarified.

Well your sort of mistaken but also sort of correct.

Hope that helps

For a more sensible and helpful answer have a read here

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-sources

Its a short article explaining where it gets its results from and some of those results are from bings web crawlers

Missli

Thanks thats clarified for me now. I didn't like ixquicks search results so am happily using duckduckgo again. It is a much better search engine, which is included in the Opera available options, so will stick with.

brightonman123

apparantly faster than IE, though pics sometimes dont load after a while.. need to clear history/cookies quite regularly.