DuckDuckGo Beat Bing to Become Android’s Main Google Alternative in Europe

https://beebom.com/duckduckgo-beat-bing-to-become-androids-main-google-alternative-in-europe/

Following the European Commission’s antitrust ruling against Google last March, the US tech giant is being forced to offer Android users in the EU multiple search engine options to choose from. As part of the plans, people in the region will get to choose their default search engine from at least four options while setting up their Android devices from March 1.

While one of the options will, obviously, be Google itself, the others would vary from one country to another based on the money these operators are willing to pay Google to get on the so-called ‘Choice Screen’ – the options list that was designed in consultation with the European Commission and, will be presented to Android handset users in the region when setting up their device for the first time.

Now that the highest bidders have been announced, Microsoft’s Bing seems to have lost out to the independent, privacy-focused service, DuckDuckGo, which has carved out a niche for itselfamong netizens concerned about their online privacy. According to the official list, DuckDuckGo will be an option in all the EU countries, while Bing will be conspicuous by its absence. The only place in Europe where Microsoft’s search engine will be offered is the UK, where DuckDuckGo and Info.com will be the other third-party options. You can hop over to the official Android blog to see the entire list or know more about the Choice Screen.

It’s worth noting here that Ecosia, a search engine run by an environmental advocacy group that claims to plant trees around the world with its search profits, boycotted the entire auction process, saying that Google’s actions violated “the spirit of the EU ruling”. In a press statement, its CEO and founder Christian Kroll further said that the company will register an official complaint with EU legislators against the US tech giant


#ddg #duckduckgo #google #android #antitrust #eu

Search engine alternatives

♦️ DuckDuckGo
-> https://duckduckgo.com
-> http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion
- US based (EU servers for EU, though).
- Mostly Bing, Yahoo and own crawler results
- Issues: Proprietary, some components are free
- ToS;DR: https://tosdr.org/#duckduckgo
- Criticism here
-- https://gitlab.com/prism-break/prism-break/issues/2143
-- https://redd.it/aqz3q8

♦️ SearX
-> https://searx.xyz
-> https://searx.xyz/tor.html
-> searx.space for other instances
- Instance of the open source metasearch engine
- You can choose which search engine to use for the results.
- Issues: No privacy policy, some public instances use Cloudflare, ads or may log IP addresses/searches.

♦️ Qwant
-> https://www.qwant.com
- French based
- Own crawlers and Bing results.
- Issues: "French law makes it mandatory to keep some connection data for one year"
- Privacy Policy: https://about.qwant.com/legal/privacy
- ToS;DR: https://tosdr.org/#qwant
- Criticism:
-- https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/bstxms/qwants_future_regarding_ethics
-- https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/35097/ethics-a-heavy-suspicion-towards-the-qwant-search-engine

♦️ MetaGer
-> https://metager.org
- Open-source metasearch engine
- Based in Germany
- Stores some information temporarily: https://metager.org/datenschutz

♦️ YaCy
-> https://yacy.net
- Distributed self hosted search engine, built on P2P networks

♦️ Mojeek
-> https://www.mojeek.com
- Uses its own crawlers

♦️ Whoogle
https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

Others:

♦️ List of search engines:
-> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

♦️ Startpage
-> startpage.com
- Startpage CEO interview
- uses Goolag search

♦️ Ecosia
-> https://www.ecosia.org
- A bing frontend
- Criticism:
-- https://info.ecosia.org/privacy#privacy-faq-item-6

♦️Gigablast
-> https://gigablast.com
- Fails SSL at Mozilla observatory
-- https://observatory.mozilla.org/analyze/www.gigablast.com

♦️ Yippy
-> yippy.com
- Uses Goolag ads

♦️ SwissCows
-> swisscows.ch

♦️ Disconnect
-> search.disconnect.me
- Connects to Amazon

♦️ Wolfram Alpha
-> www.wolframalpha.com
- Doesn't even work without JavaScript

♦️ Oscobk
-> oscobo.co.ukk

♦️ Lukol
-> www.lukol.com
- Shares data with Goolag
- Privacy policy: https://lukol.com/privacy.php


📡 @NoGoolag 📡 @Libreware
#searchengines #search #alternatives

Airtel, Jio Seen Blocking Access to DuckDuckGo Privacy-Focused Search Engine

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/internet/news/duckduckgo-search-engine-site-mobile-app-blocked-in-india-airtel-reliance-jio-vpn-report-2255290


DuckDuckGo on Twitter:
"To our users in India: We’ve received many reports our search engine is unreachable by much of India right now and have confirmed it is not due to us. We're actively talking to Internet providers to get to the bottom of it ASAP. Thank you for your patience."
https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1278288303532302336


#ddg #duckduckgo #jio #airtel #India

DuckDuckGo developers urge Justice Department to force Android to allow default search engine choice

DuckDuckGo outlined how it could work.

Representatives of the search engine DuckDuckGo have suggested to the Justice Department the implementation of an option that would let Android users select their default search engine so that Google’s monopoly is reduced without the need to apply aggressive sanctions.

The last few weeks in the world of technology have been difficult for the dominant companies in the market. Different governments are concerned about the monopolies that services such as Google have created, so they have convened their main executives to find solutions that are as fair as possible for the market.

https://reclaimthenet.org/duckduckgo-developers-urge-justice-department/

#Duckduckgo #Android

Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo is growing fast

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, announced that August 2020 ended in over 2 billion total searches via its search platform.

While Google remains the most popular search engine, DuckDuckGo has gained a great deal of traction in recent months as more and more users have begun to value their privacy on the internet.

DuckDuckGo saw over 2 billion searches and 4 million app/extension installations, and the company also said that they have over 65 million active users. DuckDuckGo could shatter its old traffic record if the same growth trend continues.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/privacy-focused-search-engine-duckduckgo-is-growing-fast/

#DuckDuckGo #search #engine

Plan Your Route Privately: DuckDuckGo Now Has Driving and Walking Directions

https://spreadprivacy.com/duckduckgo-search-map-directions

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24745511


#ddg #duckduckgo #maps #alternatives

Popular Pirate Sites ‘Disappear’ From DuckDuckGo’s Top Search Results

https://torrentfreak.com/popular-pirate-sites-disappear-from-duckduckgos-top-search-results-201112


#torrent #ddg #duckduckgo #piracy

After months of stalling, Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome and the Google app. No wonder they wanted to hide it.

Spying on users has nothing to do with building a great web browser or search engine. We would know (our app is both in one).

https://nitter.nixnet.services/DuckDuckGo/status/1371509053613084679

#duckduckgo #google #DeleteGoogle #personal #data #yourdata
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_FR
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_EN
📡@cRyPtHoN_INFOSEC_DE
📡@BlackBox_Archiv
📡@NoGoolag

Use the DuckDuckGo Extension to Block FLoC, Google’s New Tracking Method in Chrome

Google has created a new tracking method called FLoC, put it in Chrome, and automatically turned it on for millions of users.

💡 FLoC is bad for privacy: It puts you in a group based on your browsing history, and any website can get that group FLoC ID to target and fingerprint you.

You can use the DuckDuckGo Chrome extension (pending Chrome Web Store's approval of our update) to block FLoC's tracking, which is an enhancement to its tracker blocking and directly in line with the extension's single purpose of protecting your privacy holistically as you use Chrome.

DuckDuckGo Search (via our website duckduckgo.com) is now also configured to opt-out of FLoC, regardless if you use our extension or app.

https://spreadprivacy.com/block-floc-with-duckduckgo/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/9/22376110/duckduckgo-privacy-floc-block-chrome-extension-advertising-tech

#ddg #DuckDuckGo #google #FLoC #chrome #browser #ad #targeting #tracking #cookies #DeleteGoogle
📡 @nogoolag 📡 @blackbox_archiv

DuckDuckGo has a crawler called DuckDuckBot. This crawler doesn’t impact the linked results displayed; it just grabs favicons and scrapes data for a few instant answers. DuckDuckGo’s help pages claim that the engine uses over 400 sources; my interpretation is that at least 398 sources don’t impact organic results. I don’t think DuckDuckGo is transparent enough about the fact that their organic results are proxied. Compare DuckDuckGo side-by-side with Bing and Yandex and you’ll see it’s sourcing organic results from one of them (probably Bing).

From here : https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html#fnref:4

#DuckDuckGo #SearchEngine #web #scrapingWeb #Bot #WebCrawler

Here are some other internet search engines:
https://t.me/NoGoolag/2248
Which ones do you like?

#ddg #duckduckgo #censorship

DuckDuckGo Removes Pirate Sites and YouTube-DL from Its Search Results

Privacy-centered search engine DuckDuckGo has completely removed the search results for many popular pirates sites including The Pirate Bay, 1337x, and Fmovies. Several YouTube ripping services have disappeared, too and even the homepage of the open-source software youtube-mp3 is unfindable.

https://torrentfreak.com/duckduckgo-removes-pirate-sites-and-youtube-dl-from-its-search-results-220415/
#duckduckgo #censorship

#DuckDuckGo Sells Private Search Information of Users to #Microsoft

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/revealed-duckduckgo-sells-private-search-information-of-users-to-microsoft/

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/privacy-search-engine-duckduckgo-smoked-over-hidden-tracking-agreement-microsoft

Edit: #Duckduckgo uses search results from Microsoft #Bing search engine
Bing is censoring it too