Also, have a look at DuckDuckGo.com. They don’t track you or keep any of your personal information. Their search results are the same ones you get through Bing or Yahoo, so they aren’t quite as good as Google’s in certain cases, but for the added privacy, it’s well worth the sacrifice IMO.
Do you know how DuckDuck.com compares to Ixquick (Start Page)~they use Google, but they shield user IP addresses.
https://www.startpage.com/eng/company-background.html