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4. Say good bye to Google

Reply to douglas9 (Original post)

Sun Jan 19, 2020, 05:05 PM

Jan 2020

I've recently switched to DuckDuckGo.com as my default search engine. Works great.

Why did I switch? I noticed that clicking on the links in google's search results did NOT take you directly to that link. Instead they take you to google first ... so they can log which site you went to after the search.

Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but was enough to piss me off and switch.

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Google Search displays icons now on results pages [View all] douglas9 Jan 2020 OP

Thank you benld74 Jan 2020 #1

Thanks, those child like things are gone. braddy Jan 2020 #2

Much appreciated lpbk2713 Jan 2020 #3

Say good bye to Google CloudWatcher Jan 2020 #4

Google is backtracking on its controversial desktop search results redesign (Update 1.24.2020) douglas9 Jan 2020 #5