I've found duckduckgo to be a pretty crappy search engine, so even though I know Google is gathering all my search data, I still use it because it WILL find stuff the other search engines won't, and when you are searching an address, you can click "directions" and the Google map comes up. They may be leftists at Google, but they DO know what they are doing.
It isn't a worthwhile tradeoff. They know what they're doing much more than you think. They will gather all of your data (not just searches) and use A.I. to analyze, predict, and then control, your behavior without your knowledge by recognizing patterns you don't consciously realize you have; and exploiting them for the benefit of their real customers (which are not their users).
I've found duckduckgo to be a pretty crappy search engine, so even though I know Google is gathering all my search data, I still use it because it WILL find stuff the other search engines won't, and when you are searching an address, you can click "directions" and the Google map comes up. They may be leftists at Google, but they DO know what they are doing.
It isn't a worthwhile tradeoff. They know what they're doing much more than you think. They will gather all of your data (not just searches) and use A.I. to analyze, predict, and then control, your behavior without your knowledge by recognizing patterns you don't consciously realize you have; and exploiting them for the benefit of their real customers (which are not their users).