What Did I Learn Without Google?Īfter going without Google for awhile, I started to create new habits. Search engines that don’t track users will help solve this issue because they don’t use my browsing history, or what my political views are on Facebook, to determine what I see. As a result, my perception of issues may be skewed to think that people, or the internet, thinks a certain way, when really I’m only seeing partial representations of the political spectrum. Because Google’s algorithm takes all the information about what I’ve looked at online in the past, it knows what I’m most likely to click on, not what I most need to click on.įor example, if I search for something involving politics and Google knows my political leanings, it may only show me news sources with similar political views to mine. This is great in most cases, however it really means that Google is biased towards things that I look at often, and sites related to them. What I mean is that, oftentimes I would find exactly what I was looking for without even having to try. Whatever information Google was tracking about me was incredibly effective. Bing’s filter and search refinement is also more user-friendly than Google’s video feed. From an interface standpoint, Bing and Search Encrypt’s in-line video viewers are much better alternatives to Google’s list view. However, shortly after trying out a couple other options, it was clear I had been missing out. I’ve used Google’s video search almost exclusively forever.
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