[ale] [OT] Use DuckDuckGo as a search engine?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 14:00:11 EDT 2019


I left out gopher
On Thu, 2019-04-04 at 12:17 -0400, Chuck Payne via Ale wrote:
> +duckduckgo. I am surprise Jim say gopher. 
> I still use excite.com. Lycos is still around.
> 
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2019, 12:07 PM James Sumners via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> > I actually find them to be better. DDG isn’t trying to match the
> > results to what it thinks I should as an individual but instead
> > returns results based on the query. At this point, when I for some
> > reason am presented with Google results I get frustrated at the
> > lack of relevance. 
> > On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 11:17 James Baker via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> > wrote:
> > > I use Duck Duck Go, but... As one might expect, the search
> > > results are less
> > > 
> > > than optimal.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > 
> > > From: Ale [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Leam Hall via
> > > Ale
> > > 
> > > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2019 10:47 AM
> > > 
> > > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> > > 
> > > Subject: [ale] [OT] Use DuckDuckGo as a search engine?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Even I'm getting tired of G selling everything about me. Is
> > > DuckDuckGo a 
> > > 
> > > better alternative? Or another?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Leam
> > > 
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