Comment by autoexec
9 hours ago
> Google definitely does not want you to have this valuable capability. If you stop looking things up, then you won't be looking at their search engine, their ads, and their recommendation algorithms.
Google is very interested in knowing about whatever you're interested in, and in knowing when, how often, and for how long you're interested in those things. In addition to looking at their search engine, their ads, and their recommendations, you're also feeding them more and more data about you.
This is why I switched to Kagi. Even if it's just proxying Google, it doesn't tell Google who I am.
My problem with Kagi is that it requires a login to be useful meaning that it always knows exactly who you are and can associate your searches to your identity. If you don't log into google they can only guess (although honestly they'll probably guess accurately given enough search data).
I think I remember Kagi was working on a way to allow users to create an anonymous account and if so I'll have to take another look at them.