Some say DDG's search results have improved, but not yet in my experience at least. I did switch to startpage.com recently after a comment from here or Hacker News, and it's working a lot better for me, for what it's worth.

I would've expected it to be the other way around: Amazon lowering prices to defeat Apple's expensive launch, heh.

the Mozilla marketing head using Chrome.

Your post is a good example of why I'm abandoning their arrogance. I wish I wasn't, but there it is.

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In the Netherlands, you can put "No" stickers on your mailbox to indicate you don't want to be spammed. Ikea gets around it by working with the post office (google translation - hopefully deepl translator works with links soon). If I get it, I'm bringing it to Ikea to drop it on their property.

FWIW, I've switched to DuckDuckGo several times and ended up switching back to Google each time. I really would like to not use Google, but what happens is I search in DDB, see a bunch of 1997-level search results, then do that search in Google and get the right results. It's basically the same reason for switching to Google back then: I don't want to go through pages of bogus search results (from several search engines). I guess I didn't experience the degradation in Google results that you did.

What setback led you to avoid technical challenges and interview people instead?

The layout change triggered me to check again if I could remove Top Stories. I couldn't, so I unbookmarked it. I think they control too much anyway, so good riddance.

If even Eric -- who heads Mozilla's marketing team -- uses Chrome every day

How does he still have a job there?

costs $10000

It's easy to detect google bots. Why not serve them something different?

Potatoes are starchy, so high in carbohydrates. Your body also retains water to dilute high blood sugar (glucose). When people go on low-carb diets, they usually lose up to 10lb (5kg) in a week or two, because their body lets go of water.

They announced it. Will use the money to upgrade their systems etc. Selling off 8 million IP addresses. I think that's worth around $100 million.

It's an indicator that someone probably speaks German, since in German you put a comma before a relative clause (often starting with "that" or "which"). Obviously, you have put the comma in the wrong place. :)