[Frantzie]

I will try it. I hate Google - evil empire.

[Positive]

Have you tried Cuil (pronounced cool)?

I searched for "Gigablast" on Cuil and got 20 million hits.

[Kirkwood]

Try search for pictures of Michelle in that laughable red and black dress from the convention. You won’t find them using google. There is a lot of obama washing on google.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Ping for SA...

[lefty-lie-spy]

Google does not charge $4 to $5 per click. I advertise on Adwords, and it is a tiered system. It costs me, on average, less than $300 per month depending on the number of clicks I receive, based on how I decide to tier my ads. If I want more traffic, I must pay more. At the tier I applied for, the average click rate is $.02-$.05 per click.

When we, as conservatives, distort the facts, its harms us, as we always receive the bad media attention for the slightest of errors. There is no reason to post such an urban legend-sounding piece that has obviously not been fact checked.

Yes, Google may me a liberal mouthpiece, but I don’t have a problem with them. Capitalism is Capitalism, and its good for everyone. God bless the almighty dollar and Google’s stock.

[Radix]

I never even heard of Gigablast or Cuil until I read this thread.

I just looked at both. I'll be checking them out and recommending to friends if they are as claimed out here.

Thanks for this thread.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Needs to have a Firefox addon....

[Bon mots]

There are a whole lot of other search engines out there.

The Search Engine List

[jeffc]

Gigablast's directory page looks exactly like Google's directory page (except the titles go across instead of up and down). . . . .

[sbMKE]

A total line of BS, urban myth. Google may have political leanings, but don’t count on them killing their market value by compromising their core product - reliable, relevant and complete search results.

As for your $4-$5 per click number, that’s also total hogwash. I buy 10’s of thousands of clicks each year and get a great many for 10 cents per.

Just under two months in here and you’re spreading unsourced nonsensical vanities. Please spend at least 5 minutes researching if you’re going to spread conspiracy theories.

[AFreeBird]

Interesting.. A google search lists 10 pages of entries.

[Larry Lucido]

sponsored search ads (they charge 4-5$ per click).

Calling BS.

[AFreeBird]

If you’re involved with that project, submit it to Firefox for inclusion in its search bar. It doesn’t show right now.

[tinamina]

A few days ago I put my new laptop on ZoneAlarm and suddenly could not get connected to Free Republic...I tried and tried and then discovered that by changing to ZoneAlarm I had also switched my default search engine to Google. When I switched to MSN Live Search, I could get FR again, as you can see.......

[Jmouse007]

Hate GOOGLE?, Go with Scroogle:

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

[ShadowAce]

[sionnsar]

I use Dogpile by default. Good search engine, and very "American." Check out their graphics on various holidays and contrast with Google.

Cuil may nor may not be honest -- I have never been able to confirm their claim: "Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge." Eolas is the word today. Cuil means corner, niche, couch, angle, a private place (Dwelly's Gaelic-English).