Friday, July 11, 2014

why DuckDuckGo is awesome

Privacy is major concern on internet. Some online companies are collecting information about us, and use its for their commercial purpose or they sell this information to others. NSA’s PRISM program allows the United States government to collect information about users of Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, AOL and Google products without the user ever knowing that they were under surveillance.

If the NSA’s PRISM program has a user concerned, then DuckDuckGo is the Solution.


DuckDuckGo offers some really useful search features:

Privacy :  If your biggest concern is Privacy, then DuckDuckGo is best for you. DuckDuckGo is the search engine that doesn't track you.



No Ads If You Want : From Settings -> Layout you can disable ads if you want.



Images & Videos : Images and Videos are always available. View them without leaving the page. For example, search for your favourite music band , and click on "Audio" tab, you’ll get results from SoundCloud right there. You can even play a song without ever leaving the page. same goes for video But if you playing a YouTube video on the search page, Google will track this playback and there's nothing DDG can do to stop it.




Looks : You can switch to a dark mode from the sidebar. For more, go to Settings -> Look & Feel to change the font size, width, the link and text font itself or turn on underlined links.



Find Places : A better place to start your search for restaurants, or anywhere else you might decide to go.



More Meanings : When searching ambiguous terms, getting the meaning you want can be difficult. Not anymore.



Smarter Answers : Answers to your questions from the best sources, developed by our open source community. You can try  it for a definition of a word, calculating a tip, or solve a complicated equation.



Recipe Search : Introducing recipe search on DuckDuckGo. A great place to start your next meal.



Weather : This week's forecast may not look so good, but instant answer makes it a little better.







Thursday, July 10, 2014

Online Privacy and Evil Side of Google

Most of us use Search Engines to find what we need on internet but do you know Search Engines can track each one of your searches , record your IP address , keyword you use for search , time , your location and other information. If you don't believe me read your search engine's privacy policy.

Read Google privacy policy

Major search engines delete our IP addresses and anonymize personal data according to the following schedule:
Google makes money by selling ads. Google AdWords is an online advertising service and Google's main source of revenue. And it is always try to make more money by selling better ads to advertisers. to accomplish this google uses all our personal data that it can get to personalize those results.Personal data means Everything you do on the internet your searches, clicks, page views, your IP, yor internet provider, the ads you’ve been served, the time of day.Average of 64 cookies install by MSN and Yahoo in order to obtain information about the user online behavior.
Evil Side of Google

NSA’s PRISM program allows the United States government to collect information about users of Microsoft, Yahoo, Apple, AOL and Google products without the user ever knowing that they were under surveillance

ALTERNATIVE SEARCH ENGINES

Try one of these alternative search engines to enjoy web without being tracked.

DuckDuckGo.com

DuckDuckGo is a good search engine for the privacy conscious. DuckDuckGo says, they does not collect or share any personal information. DuckDuckGo discards user agents and IP addresses from its server logs.DuckDuckGo doesn’t use cookies to identify you.