And I don’t need to buy into Google’s leviathan network of privacy-invading trackers to find out what Black Panther is and when I can go and see it at my local cinema. Its annual round-up of the most searched-for terms is basically a list of names and events: World Cup, Avicii, Mac Miller, Stan Lee, Black Panther, Megan Markle. As a result, I’ve had a fairly tedious but important revelation: I search for really obvious stuff. So I made a simple change: I opened up Firefox on my Android phone and switched Google search for DuckDuckGo. Did I really need the all-seeing, all-knowing algorithms of Google to assist me? Probably not. It all started with a realisation: most the things I search for are easy to find. And, after two years in the wilderness, I’m pretty sure I’m sold on a post-Google future. But something makes these searches, in internet terms, a bit unusual. Before that, I wanted to know the capital of Albania (Tirana), the Twitter handle of Liberal Democrat deputy leader Ed Davey (he’s and dates of bank holidays in the UK for 2019 (it’s a late Easter next year, folks). What was the last thing you searched for online? For me, it was ‘$120 in pounds’.
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