Comment on Ask HN: What are the viable alternatives to DuckDuckGo?parentComments−sakarrakas1moI think it's when the search engine starts answering with links "tailored" by your usage, effectively trapping you into a bubble. But I also never heard the "bubbling" verb.−ldngOP1moExactly. I don't like search engine second-guessing what I'm looking for, more often than not it's a miss.−bejd1moExactly. DuckDuckGo used to advertise themselves as a way to escape Google's search bubble[0][0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140720050529/http://dontbubble...−ldngOP1moAnd that's exactly why I moved. And now they broke that trust.
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I think it's when the search engine starts answering with links "tailored" by your usage, effectively trapping you into a bubble. But I also never heard the "bubbling" verb.
Exactly. I don't like search engine second-guessing what I'm looking for, more often than not it's a miss.
Exactly. DuckDuckGo used to advertise themselves as a way to escape Google's search bubble[0]
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140720050529/http://dontbubble...
And that's exactly why I moved. And now they broke that trust.