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		chris_mahan on March 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why I'm switching back to Firefox But what if I use the duckduckgo search in Firefox? Am I screwing google? NB: duckduckgo uses Bing, among others.

kibwen on March 12, 2013 [–]

No, because in order to use DDG you had to change the default away from Google. That default is the entirety of what Google is paying for, and I'm sure it actually gets them a lot of traffic from people who don't care enough to switch (or who just don't care at all).

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