Gnome's Web Browser Ditches Google For DuckDuckGo
The filter bubble thing is overstated. There are times when you <i>want</i> a filter bubble, when you found a piece of information and want to dig deeper on related subjects, a "conversational" interface that has at least short term memory offers big benefits. Do you really want to ask questions to an entity which acts like it has anterograde amnesia? Can you imagine Captain Picard having to continue to remind the computer of the enterprise about context?<p>Google's 'long term memory' offers lots of benefits too, and  90% of the time, the filter bubble is the correct answer. Like when I search for a particular business on the desktop, and then later I search on my mobile device in Google Maps, and the very first auto-suggest after typing 1-2 characters it the business I searched for yesterday.  This is <i>awesome</i> given how irritating it is to enter stuff on mobile devices, especially when in motion, the fewer characters typed the better.<p>Most of the privacy issues can be solved just by opening up an incognito window. You can choose with 1 stroke whether you want a bubble or not.