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'I Broke Up with Google Search. It was Surprisingly Easy.'


Inspired by researchers who'd bribed people to use Microsoft's Bing for two weeks (and found some wanted to keep using it), a Washington Post tech columnist also tried it — and reported it "felt like quitting coffee." "The first few days, I was jittery. I kept double searching on Google and ...

Inspired by researchers who'd bribed people to use Microsoft's Bing for two weeks(and found some wanted to keep using it), a Washington Post tech columnist also tried it — and reported it "felt like quitting coffee. DuckDuckGo says that people expect instant answers from search results, and it's trying to balance those demands with keeping the web healthy. They write later that " You'll have to pry YouTube out of my cold, dead hands" and "When I moved years of emails from Gmail to Proton Mail, that switch didn't stick."

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