I upgraded hours ago, as soon as I found out about DuckDuckGo. All the fast results of Google without the privacy invasion and filtering.
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Google keeps you in a search results “bubble”, too. You are shown first page results that Google decides you want to see, based on your previous searches. Other results are buried on deeper pages. Is that service or a way of keeping you in a rut. Pop the bubble.
Thanks, Brian. Good tip! Interesting discussions online, too, about the implications of this for Google. There’s an iPad app for DuckDuckGo but you can’t make it the default browser in iOS Safari (without jailbreaking). Of course you can use it as a regular web page and search that way.
There are some features to explore in DuckDuckGo, but I’m primarily interested in the clean, simple search box.