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What does DDG do better than Google?

SSL connection. Nothing logged. When I don't care about results personalization, and if I get results I am looking for, DDG has the superior service.

Today, if an employee working for Big Evil uses google to do a search for "Software Developer open positions near Cambridge, MA", that search will likely be logged by websense and the internet firewall. That information might be found and used against you by a political enemy (when you work for Big Evil, political enemies emerge from the woodwork).

A search made over an ssl connection won't log the details.



Will the SSL hide a post/get? The SERP still have the terms in the querystring. You can get SSL on other Google apps. Maybe not on search.


Yes, it will hide them. TLS runs at a protocol layer below HTTP: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_Layer_Security




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