So I go to this meeting and there is a presentation on a new search engine. Well, new for me; I’m not sure how long it has been around. You may ask – at what type of meeting would they talk about search engines. But that doesn’t matter. The point is that was one of the presentations.
But I’ll tell you anyway. It was a WordPress meet up for the Philly ‘burbs and I’ve gone a couple times now. You’ve probably noticed that I use WordPress for this blog. And I use WordPress as part of a team of volunteers that maintains a website for my community ( http://hersheysmill.org/ ). So I thought it might be a good idea to learn something.
So this search engine really had nothing to do with WordPress but it was interesting. DuckDuckGo is a search engine but unlike many, it maintains your privacy since it does not record who is doing the searching. I’m giving it a try now and it seems to work well. You might want to check out the More area or the options in the dropdown next to the search box.
I do a lot of searching for genealogy-related info and just about anything that comes up. DuckDuckGo does a good job and the privacy and options are additional benefits. So check out https://duckduckgo.com/. I think most people would like it.
You can just opt out of search filtering and not allow google to keep web history. I do think it’s messed up that search engines tailor your search results though.
Thank you. I see the option for them not to use it but do they keep it. I don’t see anything that says that.