by Tom T. » Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:08 am
another anon wrote:i don't know if this is going to sound dumb or worthwhile but i changed my homepage from duckduckgo to startpage.com and everything seems fine. if i'm just being dumb feel free to ridicule or ignore at your leisure
thanks for the recommendation GµårÐïåñ
I've been happy enough with
https://startpage.com that I started a thread in Forum Extras > Web Tech
recommending it, and soliciting user feedback as to whether to continue to recommend it, or any issues.
cb wrote:Google is working again.
Giorgio’s findings appear spot on. With a clean profile and no cookies and with JS toggled off Google searches fail.
The next time this anomaly appears it may be useful to supply IPs as well as URLs in an attempt to reproduce.
You may want to try the above secure, privacy-aware search engine, rather than continue to be a guinea pig for Google's experiments.
If we *all* switch, maybe they'll get the message, and change their behavior?
If they don't, who cares, so long as we have better alternatives?
[quote="another anon"]i don't know if this is going to sound dumb or worthwhile but i changed my homepage from duckduckgo to startpage.com and everything seems fine. if i'm just being dumb feel free to ridicule or ignore at your leisure ;)
thanks for the recommendation GµårÐïåñ[/quote]
I've been happy enough with https://startpage.com that I started a thread in Forum Extras > Web Tech [url=http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=8481]recommending it[/url], and soliciting user feedback as to whether to continue to recommend it, or any issues.
[quote="cb"]Google is working again.
Giorgio’s findings appear spot on. With a clean profile and no cookies and with JS toggled off Google searches fail.
The next time this anomaly appears it may be useful to supply IPs as well as URLs in an attempt to reproduce.[/quote]
You may want to try the above secure, privacy-aware search engine, rather than continue to be a guinea pig for Google's experiments.
If we *all* switch, maybe they'll get the message, and change their behavior?
If they don't, who cares, so long as we have better alternatives?