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Search Engine. A Better Way To Hide From Google. Hideipvpn.com. What They Know. Leave Google Behind. Escape your search engine Filter Bubble! DuckDuckGo: Escape your search engine filter bubble. "But aren't you a part of the relevance equation? The ideal results for a search like [bitcoin crash] should be different for a Japanese-speaking searcher in Tokyo vs. a German-speaking searcher in Munich vs. a bitcoin expert vs. a programmer trying to diagnose why compiling bitcoin is crashing vs. my Mom who has never heard of bitcoin before, right?

" Maybe, but that is not the point. Besides, you are mixing localization (japanese vs german) with personalization (expert vs naive), and what is worst is that you are assuming that Google knows so well each user so as to be right (and that is either impossible, either extremely creepy), at every single instant of his life (a person can change interests). Furthermore, to grab your example, how can Google know that an expert in bitcoin and expert in bitcoin compilation and crash solver, is not just interested in hearing about the "market" crash of bitcoin? Google CANNOT read the users' mind. Search more securely with encrypted Google web search.

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