Alternative to Google Search?

[Skybird]

Since the latest news that Google ist actively trying to bypass security settings and cookie settings in your browser in order to read out data from your system and to profile you even if you have set the security of your Firefox or Explorer to close your system and to prevent such spying, and since I learned about their new spionage directive that becomes valid from tomorrow on (granted, most interesting only for those being careless enough to maintain a Google account), I am finally done and sick and tired of Google. The problem I have with them is that they claim more rights to collect data over persons than the citizen of a Western states usually would accept the police or the state to have about him. Insiders say that an ordinary proifile of a typical Googlist or social network user is worth 100-130 dollars, and that is really good money and means they are really have a motive to set up a push to get into your privacy. Without checks and balance. Without counter-control. With the servers standing in the US and foreigners and Americans being completely unable to ever learn about what is being done with these data, and how long they get stored, and by whom, and where.

So:

What is the best alternative to Google Search, in your opinions? Which crawler produces the best results and scans the greatest number of websites on the web? What is th ebest search engine to use that does not spy on you, does not try to profile you, and does the best job in results?

[Dowly]

What is the best alternative to Google Search, in your opinions? Which crawler produces the best results and scans the greatest number of websites on the web? What is th ebest search engine to use that does not spy on you, does not try to profile you, and does the best job in results?

The closest library. :yep:

[Rockstar]

Well, there's always the Dewey decimal system. Or you can try out DuckDuckGo.

[Herr-Berbunch]

How about Google via a proxy server?

[Skybird]

The closest library. :yep:


Okay, I be more precise: the best alternative for fat, lazy dogs like me who just shudder in horror when being told they must leave the house to get something done!?

[Betonov]

I don't know. :-?

Google it :yep:

[Herr-Berbunch]

Get a €cheap tablet and use it for everything you don't want to subject your normal PC to.

[Ducimus]

http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines#Metasearch_engines

[mapuc]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine

[Schroeder]

Well, I sometimes use ask.com but it isn't such an awesome search site.


How about Google via a proxy server?

I tried that but strangely whenever I wanted Google.com I got Google.de....If Google still knows where I'm from even when using a foreign proxy then I'm not sure how much that will really keep the data kraken away from you (besides why would I trust some obscure proxy server with the data I don't trust to Google?)

[Dread Knot]

Maybe you could dig up an 18 year old version of Netscape? :D

[PeriscopeDepth]

http://duckduckgo.com/ is generally pretty good. Not really supported out of the box by most browser search bars though IIRC.

PD

[TarJak]

It depends on what you are looking for. Let me know your likely searches, your credit card details, your bank account number and pin and any interesting proclivities you have and I'll do the searching for you.:D

[kraznyi_oktjabr]

It depends on what you are looking for. Let me know your likely searches, your credit card details, your bank account number and pin and any interesting proclivities you have and I'll do the searching for you.:DTarJak, always so helpful. You don't have to trust them to evil Google - just trust them to angel TarJak and nothing will ever happen... except small disappearance stunt in your bank account but that wasn't angel TarJak's fault, okay? :D

[Penguin]

Untill last week I would have said scroogle - basically a google scraper or in short: google without the ******* stuff. Sadly it died last week...:cry:

Ixquick is a good one, they have a no tracking policy, it's available in a language of your choice and it lets you search for pics and vids.

A good German meta crawler is, ja, richtig geraten ;): metacrawler.de - though I don't know about their privacy policy.


Or you can try out DuckDuckGo.

Didn't know this search engine before- great one :up: . I especially like that it lets you also search through a certain websites (site:...)
And I like the tracking explanaition by them (http://donttrack.us/) where they also show present some good tools at the end of the site. :DL I put it into my search engine list - thanks for the good tip!

[Skybird]

Thank you everybody. Checking the duck and the ix-thing now.

[kiwi_2005]

Plenty to choose from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

[the_tyrant]

Shameless self promotion: Use my proxy! blockevade.com/proxy/
I have it just for a few friends in saudi and china

though I have found bing to be decent

as a windows phone user, bing is good enough for me to not want to type "google" into my address bar.

[Reece]

You could try these::hmmm:
http://www.altavista.com/
http://www.mamma.com/
http://www.dogpile.com/

Found this old article:
http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2008/03/01/is-google-spying-on-you-probably/

[sidslotm]

Interestng post this one, I just quite google after maybe 8 years as a homepage, I wondered why all the guitar pix and adds where being put on my screen, I thought google where cool.

Just gone over to duckduckgo.com , this works really well and will now continue with it.

But i cannot help but wonder how long it will be before the control deepens, http://freenetproject.org/whatis.html to an unexceptable level.

[Herr-Berbunch]

Anyone wanting to stick with Google (Sky - this bit obviously isn't for you!) can follow these recommendations (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9114339/Google-privacy-changes-what-you-can-do.html). :DL

[Rockstar]

In addition to DuckDuckGo try using i2p also. Though as with anything out there it doesn't provide total anonymity. Google will have a much harder time looking at you as a commodity. Better than Tor, so I've read.

[Skybird]

Ixquick works nice, a bit slow maybe, but with good results , also when searching pics.

I also like that any setting options can be stored via a separate http-adress that is generated by your settings. You do not need to allow a single cookie in order to save them - I am allergic to cookies as well.

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Anyone wanting to stick with Google (Sky - this bit obviously isn't for you!) can follow these recommendations (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9114339/Google-privacy-changes-what-you-can-do.html). :DL

But Google Web History is IMO one of the more useful parts.

I won't worry too much about it anyway. They already have my Internet life by the throat.

[STEED]

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[Schroeder]

I'm using Fire Fox. No probs with it so far.

[gimpy117]

I thought this was going to be a thread for some republican google...because the liberal media is evil etc...