Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey doesn't use Google on his phone but a privacy-focused rival called DuckDuckGo

[steven36]

• Twitter founder Jack Dorsey took aim at Google on Wednesday in a cheeky tweet.
• The tweet read: "I love @DuckDuckGo. My default search engine for a while now. The app is even better!"
• DuckDuckGo is a privacy-focused search engine that shows all users the same results for any given search term or terms. It sets itself up as a privacy-focused rival to data-hungry Google.
• Dorsey has form when it comes to trolling big tech firms, with Facebook a particular target of his ire in recent months.

 

 

Jack Dorsey isn't a fan of Google search, it seems.

 

 

The Twitter founder and CEO - who also serves as CEO of mobile payments firm Square - took aim at Google with a cheeky tweet. It read: "I love @DuckDuckGo. My default search engine for a while now. The app is even better!"

 

DuckDuckGo's own Twitter account responded to Dorsey, writing That's great to hear @jack! Happy to have you on the Duck side," followed by a duck emoji.

 

Founded in 2008 in the US, DuckDuckGo is a search engine that prioritizes user privacy, sporting the tagline "Privacy, simplified." It eschews personalised search results and refuses to profile its users. It sets itself as a more privacy-focused alternative to Google search, which famously hoovers up user data to inform its ads.

 

Though DuckDuckGo is a well-visited site in absolute terms, with an Alexa rank of 187 as of November, it's small fry when compared with Google.

 

As such, it says it focuses on returning what it deems to be the best search results, rather than the most search results. It's available as an app both on Google and Apple's app stores.

 

This is not the first time Dorsey has trolled a tech giant in a tweet, with Facebook in particular facing his mockery.

 

 

A number of recent Dorsey tweets have taken aim at the social media behemoth, including one earlier this month that mocked its recent logo rebrand from lower case to all-caps. Dorsey's tweet read simply "Twitter... from TWITTER."

 

On a more serious note, Dorsey announced in a tweet thread late October that Twitter would be banning all political ads from its platform. Though his announcement didn't mention Facebook by name, the decision was clearly informed by the ongoing firestorm over Facebook's policy of allowing political ads containing lies on its platform.

 

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[vitorio]

10 minutes ago, steven36 said:

My default search engine for a while now. The app is even better!"

Just a gimmick!

[steven36]

16 minutes ago, vitorio said:

Just a gimmick!

Do you have proof?  do you live with him and have access to his phone ?  Lots of people i talk too use DDG. They have 50 million users . Many people who pirate  or if there concerted about  privacy  use it. I use DDG  sometimes  and Searx  as well. Google Search very little .

 

What Jack does don't seem to be a Gimmick.  He was the 1st  one to take a stand against political ads  that tell lies  . He losing lots of money because he has morals . That the reason  his platform is not as profitable as Facebook but it's used the most for the news .

[vitorio]

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In conclusion, I’d say that for me, personally, it is actually about choosing wisely between the two search engines according to what I need to know.

 

From someone who has used both and I agree with it.

[steven36]

38 minutes ago, vitorio said:

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In conclusion, I’d say that for me, personally, it is actually about choosing wisely between the two search engines according to what I need to know.

From someone who has used both and I agree with him.

Google  use to not be were you needed to use and alternative tell they started censoring it to please the Government  and people in high places. Having to use multiple search engines back before 2006  was why i started using Google in the 1st place it worked better . So if they can't provide a good experience were no better off than when Yahoo was the most used search engine .  Instead of moving the web forward and indexing everything there going backwards and making the Deepweb larger were you need DDG  or something else.

 

Twitter itself is a good search engine a lot of the news is posted there before it hits the main sites even most journalist just  write a article based on what said there . .

[dhjohns]

I tried duckduckgo but my search experience was not personalized automatically for me.  I will go with google.  I don't give a rat's ass about the perceived lack of privacy.  If I did, I would neither use a smart phone or the internet.  I would also shut my curtains, lock my doors, and never, ever venture out.

[tivstip]

Searx is inutile 😂