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Google Quietly Adds DuckDuckGo as a Search Engine Option for Chrome Users in About 60 Markets (techcrunch.com)

Posted by msmash on from the welcome-move dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: In an update to the chromium engine, which underpins Google's popular Chrome browser, the search giant has quietly updated the lists of default search engines it offers per market -- expanding the choice of search product users can pick from in markets around the world. Most notably it's expanded search engine lists to include pro-privacy rivals in more than 60 markets globally. The changes, which appear to have been pushed out with the Chromium 73 stable release yesterday, come at a time when Google is facing rising privacy and antitrust scrutiny and accusations of market distorting behavior at home and abroad.

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  1. If it isn't on duckduckgo by p51d007 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I probably don't want to "find" it anyway.

  2. Re:It's not that surprising by cordovaCon83 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Please refer to this link. I don't see what the big deal is though - I use DuckDuckGo because they don't share my information with their partners. I could care less if they aggregrate their search results from many different sources.

  3. Re:It's not that surprising by fustakrakich · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I use DuckDuckGo because they don't share my information with their partners.

    How do you know that?

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