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Ddg already have this for some sites.

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Excellent example choice lmao

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It’s the best example in my opinion, because it is full of fake versions of popular piracy sites because Google hides the originals.
And it is the only site I know ddg shows certification every time.

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We regularly experiment with features that help shoppers identify trustworthy businesses online[…]

I like that Google calls their users “shoppers” /s

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To be fair, I think there is a “shopping” tab when you perform a search through them.

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Yeah that’ll fix it’s completely broken search.

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It’s not broken, for google. It does exactly what they want, which is to help them gather data and manipulate people.

At work, we discussed this as a future issue in about 2000, when we saw it gaining major search share.

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Yeah we are not google. It is broken.

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Yeah, but google controls the money, so we don’t matter. Lol

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inb4 they hand these out for anyone whos paying

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8 bucks a month

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Now if they could just stop putting ad results above the app you search for in the Play store.

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TIL people use the play store for stuff besides just a rare update and apparently browse it…

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I don’t even mean browsing! Just trying to install something.

I search for “NordVPN” (because all the cool YouTubers use it!) and the first result is “Norton 360” with an install button.

It’s a “sponsored result” and it’s easy to install the wrong thing if you’re used to it actually finding the thing you just typed in.

If I put Firefox. I get duckduckgo. Okay, maybe not so bad and pretty obvious. But I’ve had these things for apps that almost look like the legitimate one.

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