I switched to ixquick, which says it uses a bunch of the other search engines and sends you your answers without tracking you or selling your info.
It seems to work well, and I don't have the eerie experiences some report of mentioning a product to your wife in the house and having a push-market ad show up on the next Web page you open.
Any thoughts on alternatives to google?
I mostly use StartPage.
google has a lot of very good search engine technology locked up in patents. Patents expire.
Also someone more cleverer than I can probably figure out ways to achieve the same results by methods that don’t violate the google patents.