On Du, 14 mar 21, 10:03:44, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I think by now every avid reader will have an idea of what's going on. > The whole fuzzball of metadata you share with Google (your IP address, > your browser version, the whole compost heap of cookies, browser metrics > prior search history with Google and affiliates -- all of that kaboodle > is part of your search query, without you knowing it.
In my case the company laptop connects to the internet via a VPN to the head office in a different country, so it tends to show me results from that country instead, whereas I prefer global results in most cases. For searches from my private device I often want results from yet another country. > If you /want/ to get back part of that control, you have to understand > that. When you search with DDG, you have to ask yourself: "since they > don't know, how can I narrow the search context?". > > After a while, this becomes second nature, and DDG results start being > more or less as good as Google's. With DDG I can easily specify whether I want "local" results and for which country. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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