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Is there a cool independent search engine? (Original Post) Syrinx Feb 2012 OP
Try DuckDuckGo steve2470 Feb 2012 #1
Startpage.com Mona Feb 2012 #2
I used startpage for awhile malthaussen Feb 2012 #11
Yes. Free services are evil. geckosfeet Feb 2012 #3
Google lied to us madokie Feb 2012 #4
Yes. There are options. geckosfeet Feb 2012 #12
Or, prevent them from collecting it. pintobean Feb 2012 #5
Point well made customerserviceguy Feb 2012 #6
Scroogle is supposedly dead now. BadgerKid Feb 2012 #7
What about Yippy? pecwae Feb 2012 #8
Carrot2 ? douglas9 Feb 2012 #9
I like Bing's results better than Google, also... TreasonousBastard Feb 2012 #10
i was contemplating changing to 'ask'. now i can dump google. eom ellenfl Feb 2012 #13
Is there a cool independent search engine? johntom Oct 2013 #14
Welcome to DU gopiscrap Oct 2013 #15
Corporate, gold digging, fascist google AstralSpirit Mar 2016 #16
Post removed Post removed Dec 2018 #17

Mona

(135 posts)
2. Startpage.com
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 07:14 AM
Feb 2012

They don't track either.

I have compared how effective it is, but seems to be google w/o the baggage.

malthaussen

(17,195 posts)
11. I used startpage for awhile
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 11:25 AM
Feb 2012

It is definitely slower than Google, and the results are not as numerous, but it isn't bad.

-- Mal

geckosfeet

(9,644 posts)
3. Yes. Free services are evil.
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 07:54 AM
Feb 2012

Google provides free services. In return they grab some semi-personal information that you voluntarily put online. If you don't want them to have your information stop putting it online. Stop using Facebook. Stop tweeting. Stop online shopping.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
4. Google lied to us
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 08:00 AM
Feb 2012

is the rub I have. Said they wasn't doing what they're doing so screw 'm
Ixquick, duckduckgo, startpage are all good search engines that don't track you

 

pintobean

(18,101 posts)
5. Or, prevent them from collecting it.
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 08:08 AM
Feb 2012

Most people don't take kindly to multi-billion dollar corporations harvesting personal information and tracking them across the internet.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
6. Point well made
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 08:12 AM
Feb 2012

But you left out, "Stop buying crap from obviously targeted ads. Don't even click on them." It's not like the average Internet user is powerless to resist.

pecwae

(8,021 posts)
8. What about Yippy?
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 08:49 AM
Feb 2012

Does it harvest? It has some weird feature that prevents getting to sites that even sound like they may be porn.

douglas9

(4,358 posts)
9. Carrot2 ?
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 09:46 AM
Feb 2012

http://search.carrot2.org/stable/search




Re: privacy question
> When I use search.carrot2.org is my IP address passed along to any of
> the search engines being queried?

No, it isn't. Requests are made from our server's IP address.

> P.S. Thanks much for the great software, carrot2 is a breath of fresh
> air in the world of search.

You're very welcome.

Dawid

http://carrot2-users-and-developers-forum.607571.n2.nabble.com/privacy-question-td2463492.html

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
10. I like Bing's results better than Google, also...
Wed Feb 22, 2012, 10:46 AM
Feb 2012

DuckDuckGo
Ask.com
Yahoo
Ixquick
Mama
Dogpile
Mahalo
Kartoo

and sometimes specialty search engines like Wolfram



AstralSpirit

(1 post)
16. Corporate, gold digging, fascist google
Thu Mar 31, 2016, 05:39 AM
Mar 2016

the thing about google & other 'corporate' search engines isn't just that they share any info about u, google only searches & shows the results from any company who pays them for advertising, & Bing isn't any better for actually finding real results. I remember when the internet was a new thing, I used to use ICQ & Lycos, & they used to find REAL results that u could pick & choose from. Another of the algorithms in goggles programing probably filters out sites that don't have much content, or not often visited, but who are they to take the option away from us to decide how much stuff we want to wade thru', just because they want to make things easier for the lame brained, lazy & half witted & idiots like themselves who have no right to call themselves intelligent when they clearly aren't.

Even this site, as independent as it is pretending to me, or power to the people guise, it has a goggle search box. google is big-brother & if this site has been set up for them to keep an eye on those who don't like their fascist ways then good job, google is a moronic organisation & is too big for there own good, & the way they are buying up artificial intelligence, cybernetics & robotics companies, I think we can see who is going to be responsible for a type of 'Skynet' that will be the end of Humanity.

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