The complete list of alternatives to all Google products

Techspot ^ | June 29 2019 | Sven Taylor

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With growing concerns over online privacy and securing personal data, more people than ever are considering alternatives to Google products. After all, Google’s business model essentially revolves around data collection and advertisements, both of which infringe on your privacy. More data means better (targeted) ads and more revenue. The company pulled in over $116 billion in ad revenue last year alone – and that number continues to grow.

A growing number of people are seeking alternatives to Google products that respect their privacy and data. This guide aims to be the most exhaustive resource available for documenting alternatives to Google product. So let’s get started (in no particular order or preference)...

StartPage – StartPage gives you Google search results, but without the tracking (based in the Netherlands).

Searx – A privacy-friendly and versatile metasearch engine that’s also open source.

MetaGer – An open source metasearch engine with good features, based in Germany.

SwissCows – A zero-tracking private search engine based in Switzerland, hosted on secure Swiss infrastructure.

Qwant – A private search engine based in France.

DuckDuckGo – A private search engine based in the US.

Mojeek – The only true search engine (rather than metasearch engine) that has its own crawler and index (based in the UK).

YaCy – A decentralized, open source, peer-to-peer search engine.

Givero – Based in Denmark, Givero offers more privacy than Google and combines search with charitable donations.

Ecosia – Ecosia is based in Germany and donates a part of revenues to planting trees.

Note: With the exception of Mojeek, all of the private search engines above are technically metasearch engines, since they source their results from other search engines, such as Bing and Google.

[Monkey Face]

Thanks!!

I already have AAA, and not only use it for road service, but since moving away from Vegas, I also use them as my insurance carrier. I completely spaced them have paper maps!! LOL!

My current vehicle was given to me by sionnar’s widow a couple of years after his passing. It was his commuter vehicle and is a 92 Geo Tracker. It’s reliable for the most part, but it’s beginning to show its age and a few parts are wearing out. Still, it beats walking everywhere!!

And I love it.

I used to have MapQuest exclusively, but I think MS played with it in one of their endless, useless “upgrades” but I’ll begin looking at the other choices.

Thanks again!

And Happy 4th of July!

[Silentgypsy]

Thanks!

[Karliner]

Happy fourth. As usual I didn’t read the replies and responded then saw someone just above my post hit you with a AAA line. I think I need a map out of Cartelfornia. Oregon trail EAST ( eggsit stage left even) here I come!

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You’re welcome. Happy 4th!

[Uri’el-2012]

Grorge Gilder of "Life after Google" fame

recommends DuckduckGo as a search engine
& Brave as a Browser.

[sphinx]

Bump

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Thanks.

[bk1000]

“Horrific name though. What were they thinking?”

My guess is some sort of play on the kid’s game “Duck, duck, goose.”