As crappy as googles results seem to have gotten over the last year, anytime I try to set my browser default search to anything else, I end up irritated and going back to Google for 50% of my searches(maybe even more ). Bing is fairly decent, but if the goal is privacy...

The alternative search engines just always lack the context--ehich presumably google has from me by pilfering my information for the last 2 decades.

They’re talking about the ads on the site, not on Google.

Basically saying if this helps them find sites that focus on content and not extracting profit, they won’t have an issue with it.