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On Mon, 15 Jul 2024, 26yh.0712 wrote:

> On 7/15/24 1:19 AM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Jul 2024 16:30:25 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>
>>> 	I too resist Google, the great big advertising
>>> agency and always search with DDG.  It is a choice on Firefox. SeaMonkey
>>> and Mercury browsers.
>> 
>> I use Brave and generally go with the Brave search.
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_Search
>> 
>> I do use DDG if I have Firefox open but have noticed DDG tends to be a
>> wrapper on Bing.
>> 
>> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13451223/Microsoft-outage-
>> Bing-DuckDuckGo-ChatGPT-thousands-users.html
>> 
>> DDG does have other sources it indexes.
>
>
>  While it would be great to completely avoid
>  Goog and M$, this just isn't practical. Those
>  engines are now so HUGE and quick that even
>  DDG is going to use them by proxy. The only
>  good bit is that DDG disguises YOUR identity
>  so Goog cannot easily monitor/target your stuff.
>
>  Future worry - Goog and M$ don't necessarily HAVE
>  to let DDG and related use them for searches. One
>  greedy itch and it's Goog or NOTHING worth a damn.
>  It is very difficult to create even a tiny spot
>  in the world where money doesn't rule - Ok, maybe
>  China, but there the STATE rules and spies on your
>  every keystroke with bad intent ........
>
>  Aww ... I see AltaVista now takes you to Yahoo  :-(
>

I think there would be some kind of antitrust procedure if one or two of 
them started to cut off third party search engines.

Perhaps, in the end, we'll revert to the classic, eternal beauty of 
dmoz.org? It no longer works but it was one of those directories curated 
by humans.