Religion and Ethics Forum
General Category => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Hope on August 11, 2015, 02:00:32 PM
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An interesting item on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show on the way in which Google (and other search engines) use information you 'provide' (in emails, internet searches, etc.) to push advertising in your direction - and that fact that they then sell this kind of data to businesses - and potentially less 'snooping' search engines. DuckDuckGo was mentioned in this context. Any others that folk here use to avoid Google and the 'big' names.
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An interesting item on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show on the way in which Google (and other search engines) use information you 'provide' (in emails, internet searches, etc.) to push advertising in your direction - and that fact that they then sell this kind of data to businesses - and potentially less 'snooping' search engines. DuckDuckGo was mentioned in this context. Any others that folk here use to avoid Google and the 'big' names.
I am not interested in advertisements, they are more likely to put me off a product than want to buy it!
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I am not interested in advertisements, they are more likely to put me off a product than want to buy it!
So, do you use a search engine other than Google, Bing, and most of the 'big' named search engines?
By the way, I missed out the fact that many of these big engines 'track' your internet activity, hence affording you less privacy.
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I am not interested in advertisements, they are more likely to put me off a product than want to buy it!
So, do you use a search engine other than Google, Bing, and most of the 'big' named search engines?
By the way, I missed out the fact that many of these big engines 'track' your internet activity, hence affording you less privacy.
I admit to using Google. I realise my activity is tracked as I get a resume every month, but as I have nothing I wish to hide it doesn't worry me.