savingGrace

What are some real applications for this?

The title 'Fake doctor' makes this piece sound very negative from the get-go. I assumed I was going to be reading about people abusing the medical field. Instead it was about a man trying to help save babies.

I keep trying DDG. Year after year I set all of my computers to use DDG. I last a week, a month, but in the end I always give up and set it back to Google.

I was really hoping the title meant like it read. Maybe my hopefulness was reading too much into 'Search Improvements.'

It is also possible that I don't need a search engine. I'm guessing that at least half of the questions/searches result in a post on SO or Wikipedia. There's probably a quarter of them that shoot me to some Medium entry. I guess I could always just bookmark those sites and skip the search engine..

It keeps being mentioned that podcasters will be hurt by this, but I'm not sure how that is so?

Are the advertisers going to know that someone didn't hear their ad? Are the podcasters not going to get paid for still playing the ads? Are the people who are in love with listening to ads, still not going to get to listen to their ads? Why is this not a win all the way around?

Why could they not turn around and go back the way they came? I am not a hiker.

Every now and then I see one of these articles that talks of the evils of Google. It makes me give Firefox a go again. Every single time I go back to Chrome. I've had 5 different computers and FF always freezes at some point on every one of them. I'm a front-end dev and having all of my working tabs go away is not great. Secondly, this last FF freeze (a couple days ago) blew up my profile.

Google may not care about my privacy, but there are no alternatives.

http://www.discovere.org/our-activities We perform the 'earthquake', 'wind turbine', and 'roller coaster' activities with children/teenagers at schools in our area. We have 100+ volunteers that take the kits to the schools and help children get interested in STEM.