Beginner Anti-Conformist Searches for Google Alternatives on Google
Michelle Taylor, once teacher’s pet in high school and her parent’s favourite child (allegedly), has begun the slippery slope into anti-conformity with a brave Google search for “What are sme alternatives to Google?”
Google helpfully corrected her misspelling of the word ‘some,’ but this last ditch effort by the world’s most popular algorithm was not enough to anchor Miss Taylor to its dominant web crawler.
After moving down past the targeted advertisements for thigh-high boots (which, creepily enough, she’d only just mentioned she was saving for in front of her mother and their Google Home Mini), she clicked on the first article and began to consider her alternatives.
Following some consideration into the weirdness of the name and the logo’s aesthetics, Miss Taylor selected DuckDuckGo. Delighted, and somewhat oblivious, she marked it as her default search engine in the Settings menu of the Google Chrome browser.
Though DuckDuckGo has proved a little less sophisticated than Google with finding pretty much anything, Miss Taylor says she has stuck with it…most of the time. When pushed to expand her answer, Miss Taylor mumbled that he sometimes switched back for the image search and for maps.
