Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Bobbie Sellers Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: There he goes again Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:30:25 -0700 Organization: none at all Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2024 01:30:26 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="67fbcbc52448e9664385dd2055a8f095"; logging-data="387437"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18/2vEYdgdWrCfNu+UmXYRd" User-Agent: Betterbird (Linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:4NML1QMW5bdPBPT70niogycDRjQ= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2439 On 7/14/24 09:46, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > On 2024-07-14, rbowman wrote: > >> Do you ever google something using DuckDuckGo? > > Nope. I'm trying to live as Google-free as possible - > why should I give them free advertising? > Charlie here 'google' is being used as slang or argot for 'search'. When you search on DuckDuckGo you are not using Google. I too resist Google, the great big advertising agency and always search with DDG. It is a choice on Firefox. SeaMonkey and Mercury browsers. bliss -- b l i s s - S F 4 e v e r at D S L E x t r e m e dot com