Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]


Groups > linux.debian.user > #209705

Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s

From John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s
Date 2019-06-06 23:00 +0200
Message-ID <y67Em-76R-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <y5YhI-1rL-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <y5YB3-1NC-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <y63AK-4JX-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <y65sR-5Rz-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <y671E-6U5-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
Organization Dancing Horse Hill

Show all headers | View raw


> A friend of mine, biologist, heavily relying on Google search for her
>work, once told me that when she worked from home, the search results
>for exactly the same terms turned up totally different results (somehow
>less related to biology, she felt).  Once I explained her how that
>works, I think Google has one user less and DDG one more :-)

I've tried the Duck.  Great idea, but it's inadequate.  Just block
Google's cookies and scripts and it works fine.  They don't rank stuff
higher for money: their predecessors got caught doing that and it's one
of the reasons Google succeeded (they have ads, of course: it's how they
pay for the service).  What their software *does* do, assuming that you
allow their cookies and script, is try to learn your preferences so that
it can take what it thinks are your interests into account when ordering
search results.  This works pretty well for the average user who is
really only interested in major league sports and celebrities.
-- 
John Hasler 
jhasler@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread


Thread

Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s Thorsten <deb_thor@posteo.de> - 2019-06-02 12:40 +0200
  Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s Thorsten <deb_thor@posteo.de> - 2019-06-06 13:00 +0200
    Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-06-06 13:20 +0200
      Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s Thorsten Nicklaus <nicklaus.th@posteo.de> - 2019-06-06 18:40 +0200
        Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2019-06-06 20:40 +0200
          Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-06 22:20 +0200
            Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-06-06 23:00 +0200
              Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-06 23:30 +0200
                Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2019-06-06 23:50 +0200
                Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2019-06-07 00:10 +0200
                Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-06-07 09:00 +0200
              Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-06-07 08:30 +0200
              Re: Problem with Mate in Buster on T480s Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-07 14:20 +0200

csiph-web