Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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People who haven't gotten into habit of googling stuff in the last 20 years might not get into it at all anymore because of how search engines are gamed with SEO spam tactics nowadays (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

you can use Google or Bing from duckduckgo using !bangs. g! (for google) or b! (for bing) then whatever you are searching for. I use g! all the time for non privacy related things. and since duckduckgo doesn't use trackers and all that the results can be terrible so sometimes I just resort to using g!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Using DuckDuckGo to search through Google seems pretty damn pointless if you ask me. If the search engine is shit and I am just roundabout using Google then why even bother?

I know you said the thing about trackers, but a lot of us don't really care about that. If the end result is just using Google anyway then I'd rather just start with Google and not use another site to use Google.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

oh yeah. if you don't care, there really is not a point to use duckduckgo. I should say IMO because I'm sure a much more technically minded person will have a better answer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I disagree. A lot of the Google search results are based on your previous search history and your advertising profile the company has generated for you, which skews and promotes most of the front page Google search results as advertising links. And unless you're searching for an actual product, they are not so useful.

Like if I want to search for comments, and all my search results are advertising me telescopes and astronomy software that's not so helpful.