Alternative Search Engines instead of Google

Metallicman ^ | 14DEC18 | Editorial staff

[vannrox]

Back in the day, I was one of the first people to start using Google as a search engine. I liked it’s clean interface, and simplicity.

Of course, over the years, other people also found this to be the preferential search engine. Unfortunately, Google became big, powerful and yes, evil. They siphon up your personal information with zero regard to fourth amendment protections. They sell the information to the highest bidder, and give it away for free if the person is part of a government agency.

Unfortunately, people like myself VALUE privacy. And that means that I no longer can use Google.

Here is a selection of various search engine alternatives to Google. It is not a complete list. As there are thousands of alternatives. These are some the best ones that I have found.

You might discover, as I have, that they have BETTER and more comprehensive results than Google. You just need to understand that they work differently than Google. So you must query your searches differently…

You see, Google only provides results to you that they feel should be presented to you.

This is problematic. Because they only show you the possible results that you qualify for. The qualification rules are kept secret, and are a closely held secret at that. They, like many of their politically liberal breathren, consider themselves as your parents and have the role of censoring your search results for (what they consider to be) your own good.

With all this being said, let’s look at the top candidate… Duck Duck Go

Let’s start with the fist step is divorcing yourself from Google. Use Duckduckgo. If you go duck, you will never go back.

It is clean and operates much like Google does. The only difference is that it is

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[FreedomPoster]

Likewise. James Damore getting fired from Google was the catalyst to make me de-Google-fy my life to a great extent. DuckDuckGo is my new default search engine, I’m quite happy. Google had been getting less useful for a few years.

I don’t have a good replacement for Waze yet. Any ideas?

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

Years ago, we surrendered ‘privacy’ for ‘anonymity’.

To those who doubt it? Look at all the cameras monitoring us as we walk and drive down the streets. Look at the GPS on your cell phone. If it can tell you where you are, ‘they’ can monitor where you are.

[cyclotic]

I travel a lot for work and have a dashboard GPS. Rarely use Waze

[Chickensoup]

absolutely remember.

Takes us back

Apple 2E

Internet was sllooooooooowwwww.

count the bits going by.

[FreedomPoster]

My dashboard GPS isn’t as good at routing, and Waze IDs speed traps via crowdsourcing.

[Celerity]

Yes and YES. Chrome, even if you’re using DDG as a search engine tracks your keystrokes. About a week ago I mentioned someone on FR and later on I went to youtube and found a video recommendation about that person. I never said that person’s name aloud and never mentioned it in any conversation outside of one post on FR.

FR didn’t report my activity.. Chrome did. I’m on Vivaldi at the moment because now Chrome is no longer part of my PC.

But I often talk to my wife about things in the presence of our phone and lo and behold - she is getting recommendations on those things. I don’t know which phone is doing it, but I am convinced without a doubt or hesitation that these devices are listening even with safeties turned on.

Next is my car. I just got a new (2007) car with onstar. It’s the newest car I’ve owned and I’m pretty sure that onstar is listening. I know I’m paranoid but the conversation things that make it to my online profile are enough to show me that I’m right - They ARE listening.

[Montana_Sam]

Thanks for that chart.
Have been using the duck for a couple of years now, and encouraging others to do the same. The thing the got me about Google was the presumptive ads and sites it recommended. Including the fact that it had an obvious left-leaning bias. It seemed I always had to look at the sixth or eighth or tenth page to find credible sources. Bye-bye, Google. Hello, Duck!
For a while, I used Startpage (a Google wrapper), but it still gave me the odd presumptive ads and site recommendations.

[cyclotic]

Mine either, but I carry paper maps if I need to reroute, or sometimes I do resort to Waze.

In 40 years of driving, usually fast, I’ve only gotten two tickets, so I don’t worry much about speed traps.

[crusty old prospector]

I use Duck Duck Go unless I need to use Google Map.

[Red Badger]

https://www.startpage.com/

[Red Badger]

How do you get rid of google?

Buy an Apple................

[DeSoto]

bookmark for later

[G Larry]

“I switched to duck duck go a few months ago.”

Ditto

[gibsonguy]

“At work because duck is blocked there).”

Why did duck get blocked?

[gibsonguy]

Or Web crawler.

[Prov1322]

I remember when AOL fist connected to the www. Buy software on floppies? I had a lifetime supply of AOL floppies.

Free floppies and browsing the telephone book size Computer Shopper every month!

Sometimes I'll play an mp3 of the dial-up connecting sounds to remind myself that my occasional blip in current lightening fast connection speed is nothing compared to the slogging days of "FAST" 2400BAUD connection (not to mention the days of a physical phone coupler modem)!

[sauropod]

been using duck about a year.

[spokeshave2]

Someone mentioned AltaVista yesterday ...but I haven’t checked it out yet.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

I use the duck ... great search engine.