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Google search value declining  
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Wednesday, 17 January 2024 10:43

Google search value declining  


Spam sites are ruining search results

According to a new study by German boffins, Google search is flooded with low-quality SEO spam.

Privacy alliance asks US congress to pull finger out
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Good luck with that

An alliance of Privacy-focused organisations, including Proton, Brave and Mozilla and Duckduckgo have begged the US congress to stop allowing big tech to spy on people and resurrect a law which would make it difficult for them to do it.

DuckDuckGo is not as discrete as you might think
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 Microsoft tracking hole in the system

While many look to DuckDuckGo to protect them from monitoring from big tech, it looks like the search engine is not that private due to deals done with Microsoft.

DuckDuckGo loses the neo-nazis
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Monday, 14 March 2022 12:24

DuckDuckGo loses the neo-nazis


Microsoft search is the root of the "problem"


Search engine outfit DuckDuckGo has lost the support of neo-nazi groups who are upset that their diet of fake news and instructions from Russia has been sabotaged.

DuckDuckGo overtakes Bing
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Monday, 28 June 2021 11:13

DuckDuckGo overtakes Bing


Search traffic goes up by 55 percent

Privacy search engine DuckDuckGo has apparently overtaken Bing and is now the number two search engine behind Google, at least in the US, Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands.