Double-plus-good idea

Better not or will expect the refund immediately

Getting good at queries, I’m down for that, thanks 🙂

That ALT symbol’s a cruel prank on the blind :’(

Wait screen readers wouldn’t see it nvm

Oh Bing

Search is hard

Good call though, I’ve done comparisons and it’s very Bingy though not 1:1 - search operators behave differently IIRC (quotation marks)

Oh so you want me to spend an extra fraction of a second to avoid an absolute privacy nightmare that could follow me around for the rest of my life?! (including potential price discrimination stealing e.g. a better retirement from me)

😉 thanks for testing!

Good question, something I wondered about after I posted.

Nope - OK, you know what helps?

Searching via the DDG site and then tapping images. Apparently I typed “reavers gif !ddgi” to save the tap and it does a hidden spelling correction to “reverse”?!

One mystery solved!

Edit: annotation in a dark font due to iOS 18 Markup bug, sorry it’s hard to see there in the upper right

And it’s different now! Reminded of how DDG rearranges search results when opening a result link, then hitting back, but much more extreme.

sprawling profile

Using a fresh [cookie-isolated] private tab for every search and going through iCloud Private Relay… I still have no doubt they still manage it. Sigh. Those “am I unique?” browser fingerprinting tests still show I’m unique, perhaps due to having an extension or two installed on Safari? Creepy.

OK, I feel better now. On searxng.site, I disabled all engines except for Google and I’m getting results similar to in my OP.

You’re right :) Dumb little joke about the show I shoehorned in.

For context, DuckDuckGo is my default search engine. I do at least a dozen searches every day. Approximately 90% of the time, I use a bang (!g) to punch out to Google and receive results I perceive to be of higher quality 99% of the time. I am absolutely elated when I hit the back button because DDG had a better result in the top 3.

It decided not to do a hidden autocorrect to reverse this time:

(Same everything (new private tab), just zoomed out.)

Hmm!

A small smirk with eyes averted is much more appropriate.

(Smirk’s just a bit of an expected reaction given the odd design)

They left the rest of your Google account alone? That’s interesting…

You always adblock on all of your devices, or most of them? Ever VPN?

😉 had never heard of that. Has it fallen out of use in favor of more modern techniques?

So they shouldn’t have been a regular part of my balanced breakfast?

Damnit Joe

Funny and accurate

It sure are.

Don’t ask where they stick it