[Kay Ludlow]

Something else nice about duckduckgo is that it doesn't seem to be doing the ‘preference filtering’ that google has moved to. More and more often, when my husband uses google, he can't find information that he knows he's found before, like old news stories, quotations that are more freedom oriented, etc. He kept telling me stuff was being ‘scrubbed from from the net’. When I do the same search in duckduckgo I find what he's looking for. It's Google ‘scrubbing’ the search results - the information is still on the net, Google has just gone political on what it wants you to see. To me, that alone makes duckduckgo worth using!

[HiTech RedNeck]

The preference filtering is enabled by cookies, e.g. when you’ve logged into some other Google service and then go try to use Google search. I would have done it a bit more respectfully, like “Your recorded preferences would suggest thus-and-such. Would you like to continue down that path, or use the default universal search?” But again that’s a flaw associated in part with the totally human fault of being full of themselves.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Anyhow. If hubby used another browser (say Google’s own Chrome) just for Google Search purposes, and had it clear cookies in between visits, then he would be more likely to see things in a manner consistent from time to time.