you are just used to google, it doesn't mean it's better than others. I switched to DDG several years ago, now I'm used to it. Sometimes when I go back to google i think the results are just bad, because I'm used to how DDG works now. Google just shows you always what you'd like to see, this is not good at all, you just live inside a walled garden.
Worth emphasising IMO. People are conditioned to using Google and its quirks, that can make alternatives engines a little less intuitive. Also they're often criticised for overrunning verticals with their own offerings. My favourite example being celebritynetworth.
Beyond 10 blue links, certain niches organic results have been pushed down the page and placed under G specific results (when I say certain, nowadays it's most).
Celebritynetworth is an example of this where a site had some unique content, G apparently realised that lots of people search for such stuff, asked the owner for an API and then eventually scraped it. A rough version of events, more details below.
There are lots of examples of well performing sites/niches where similar has happened.
I embarked on this experience of dedicating my some of time to children, totally free of charge. I believe that we must give back our fortune somehow. This is my way.
I just stopped working for other people/company, I only work for myself.
Any kind of anxiety disappeared just after I learned how to survive by myself.
As a Firefox user since its beta, there is? Last I checked there remain 3 browser engines left. Mozilla’s Gecko, Google’s Blink, and Apple’s Webkit. Everything else is just variants using those engines, and the vast majority of those variants (Opera, Brave, Edge, etc) are Chromium-based/using Blink. That’s not a lot of difference. If you really want to get away from chrome, your mainstream option is just Firefox. Unless you’re on a Mac, or iPhone. Where you can choose between Firefox and safari.
Doesn't Firefox use Quantum now? Gecko is what used XUL and it was buried when they switched to WebExtensions.
Pale Moon uses a fork of Gecko called Goanna.
SerenityOS has an independent browser in the works, and netsurf is still around.
There are options, but people have put most of their eggs into two baskets and now we're stuck with things looking mostly the same but some have antifeatures.
I want a browser with uBO's functionality simply built in. Fuck your extensions or other attempts to endrun, Google. Stop it at the source and build request filtering into browsers directly.
I like (in no specific order) Orion (MacOS), Kiwi (Android), Fennec (Android), Thorium (desktop, Android), and I'm going to give Iceraven (Android) a try soon. What's everyone's favorite non-mainstream browser?
I'm Italian, and unfortunately, we currently have shortsighted politicians. They seem clueless about their actions, and rather than promoting progress and research in various fields, they are attempting to halt time or, in some areas, even regress. They are a group of illiterate fascists who don't even understand how they attained their positions. The advent of cultivated meat doesn't mean that our Italian traditions will be eradicated in its favor. Both can coexist, allowing people to decide what's best for themselves and the planet. For instance, Italy has a ban on GMOs, yet our intensive farming practices involve feeding chickens and other animals imported GMOs daily. So, what's the point of this ban? It's mere propaganda with no scientific basis, and it's ruining our country.
Extra fun fact: Lollobrigida (Italy's minister of agriculture) holds his position as a Minister, solely because he is the husband of the Prime Minister's sister, and that's the extent of his qualifications.
I am Italian as well and this law is bullcrap to divert the public attention from real problems. But I am happy to let other, "more innovative" countries be the lab rat on this.
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