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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

yes op that's why I use duck duck go

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

tbh the hardest goog product to dump has been maps. there's somehow no viable alternatives other than pulling out my phone and using apple maps

and YouTube I guess but that's kinda different

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

Shaggar posted:

does apple maps still exist?

on iPhone yes on web it doesn't seem to

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

and yeah apple maps seems basically unusable outside of the US but it very much suits my needs. Thankfully

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

lampey posted:

and what are you going to use? google is literally 90%+ of the search market. bing yandex baidu and yahoo are all worse in many ways. they can be good if what you are searching for was removed from google for copyright or trademark reasons. And there are some overzealous takedowns that remove a huge amount of unrelated content if a brand name or acronym is even mentioned on a page.

if your search is terrible it is probably because you are signed in and things are over optimized based on your history. either lock down your privacy settings and delete your search history or sign out and use safari or FF because chrome still has cookies you can't delete. and putting individual terms in quotes is neccesary with a lot of things but that is with all search engines these days

i use duckduckgo and it is perfectly fine

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

youtube is inescapable because the few creators i am willing to go there for do not post their videos to other places

gmaps is inescapable because there is no viable browser alternative somehow

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

I like the one star reviews from people who ordered the wrong thing and thus received something they didn't want

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Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

don't use Google products. hth

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