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 But doubts still exist regarding search quality. Under the current search engine landscape, a better solution might be decentralizing your searches.
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DuckDuckGo? is just a search proxy for Bing. Why should there be a quality concern?

 Using a universal search engine like Google does provide convenience to some extent, but it also greatly expands the risk of privacy invasion and results manipulation. Dispersing search queries on various vertical search engines is a good way to avoid revealing your full user profile to one tech company. Moreover, vertical search engines can return more precise and calibrated results due to narrowed scope and vertical expertise.  

Coming out of the comfort zone by abandoning a tool we are used to is never a pleasure, but if doing so can relieve the worries on who’s watching over us every time we search, wondering what the repercussions are and how our own data will be used to manipulate our own thinking, it is worthwhile to make the change.

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You haven't offered any real answers to your own question. How about explaining that search proxying, like the SSH tunnel I showed reduces search-based tracking? How about explaining how to crunch the cookies of the search provider? How about explaining that if the search provider doesn't see you logged in on any of its other services it cannot cross-link? How about ad-blocking? How about not using a browser manufactured by the search provider? Brief explanations of these points and analysis of their utility would improve the essay.

 
You are entitled to restrict access to your paper if you want to. But we all derive immense benefit from reading one another's work, and I hope you won't feel the need unless the subject matter is personal and its disclosure would be harmful or undesirable.

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