[petters]

> Google is a for profit company. On the side the offer products and services. Their profits come from selling your data to others.

Google does not sell the data to others. (In fact, much of Google's profits would remain intact even without any user data. That is the great thing about search ads -- the user tells you exactly what they want. There is no need to guess)

[jcrites]

No, but a history of what you’ve previously searched massively improves search results in just a few queries.

[eitland]

Fact is despite all the tracking search results for me and many others are significantly worse than they used to.

YMMW and what matters for me might not matter for everyone and weeding spam might be harder than before but:

Double quotes used to work reliably.

[adrianN]

At least that's the claim. I don't think that Google's search results are that much better than Duckduckgo's, at least for queries where I'm not searching for local businesses.

[Terretta]

And yet…