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VANITY - Getting rid of Evil Google
02/26/2012 | Self

Posted on 02/26/2012 10:45:30 AM PST by lowtaxsmallgov

Ridding my life of Google. Does anyone have suggestions for search engines that combine... - neutral or conservative oriented results - doesn't track personal info, either on a personal or aggragated level - performance - fast, relevant, current, etc - monetization (banner ads, etc) directed towards conservative owners, conservative causes, conservative politicos, etc etc etc


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: evil; google
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

I’ve been trying this out...

http://lifehacker.com/5886976/do-not-track-plus-stops-ad-companies-and-others-from-tracking-you-online


21 posted on 02/26/2012 11:38:19 AM PST by ChadsDad (never post email.)
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To: lowtaxsmallgov
Try DuckDuckGo.
22 posted on 02/26/2012 11:38:33 AM PST by cynwoody
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To: lowtaxsmallgov
You can also install "Do Not Track Plus" to your browser(s).
23 posted on 02/26/2012 11:41:51 AM PST by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: meatloaf

Its creepy the way were being tracked...

Check out the story about the teenage girl who shopped at Target and used their savings card.

It turns out she was Pregnant and their computers figured it out by the vitamins she was buying. They started sending her advertisements for baby clothes and other baby products.

The Dad saw this and got very angry and complained to the local store manager. A few weeks later he had to apologize.

I have nothing to hide, but my business is my business. Best to keep a small footprint. Of course by posting on FR we are being tracked to a certain degree.


24 posted on 02/26/2012 11:43:09 AM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

I ditched my Android and went back to Blackberry. I ditched Chrome for Opera. I use Bing for maps and Ixquick for searches.

The only Google I use for anything at all is Youtube.


25 posted on 02/26/2012 11:53:51 AM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: meatloaf

I love your movie.


26 posted on 02/26/2012 11:55:06 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: phockthis

sfl


27 posted on 02/26/2012 12:07:46 PM PST by phockthis (http://www.supremelaw.org/fedzone11/index.htm ...)
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To: ansel12

I have a movie?


28 posted on 02/26/2012 12:08:07 PM PST by meatloaf (Support House Bill 1380 to eliminate oil slavery.)
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To: Eccl 10:2

Ping for later.


29 posted on 02/26/2012 12:12:54 PM PST by ishmac (Lady Thatcher:"There are no permanent defeats in politics because there are no permanent victories.)
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To: sauropod

monitor


30 posted on 02/26/2012 12:15:58 PM PST by sauropod (You can elect your very own tyranny - Marc Levin)
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To: desertfreedom765; lowtaxsmallgov
Try searching on your FR handle... It will show up along with any other sites you have used that handle on.

I just googled Obviously Google does much evil by my reckoning. I got exactly one result — this page.

Actually, I find Google quite useful for finding stuff of mine that has long since fallen off the first page of pings.

31 posted on 02/26/2012 12:18:57 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

Starpage uses google but blocks your IP

https://startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html


32 posted on 02/26/2012 12:26:32 PM PST by logitech (Who's here so vile, that will not love his country? If any speak, for him I have offended)
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To: desertfreedom765
Check out the story about the teenage girl who shopped at Target and used their savings card.

Yes, that story was a hoot. I was particularly amused by Target's response to customer ire: they learned the value of camo, as one Targeter explained:

“With the pregnancy products, though, we learned that some women react badly,” the executive said. “Then we started mixing in all these ads for things we knew pregnant women would never buy, so the baby ads looked random. We’d put an ad for a lawn mower next to diapers. We’d put a coupon for wineglasses next to infant clothes. That way, it looked like all the products were chosen by chance.

To be fair, however, this was not Google. This was Target diligently mining their own sales data.

33 posted on 02/26/2012 12:29:43 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: meatloaf

http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=Rocky+Horror+Picture+show+meatloaf


34 posted on 02/26/2012 12:33:41 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

No, I’m afraid I don’t. I like the site because it is a straightforward, no bells-and-whistles search engine.


35 posted on 02/26/2012 1:25:30 PM PST by Jemian
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To: cynwoody

I have to say, on first tests the DuckDukeGo search engine is pretty tight, reminding me of those earlier days before Google, when learning about Search Engine Optimization and the trying to explain what came to be called “cloud computing” to blank faces.


36 posted on 02/26/2012 3:17:07 PM PST by Prospero
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

ixquick or qrobe.it


37 posted on 02/26/2012 3:57:01 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Do all He commands. Receive all He promises.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

192.168.0.0 is the Class C private network and “shouldn’t” be visible to the public internet. The address of the connection to the ISP would be the only thing of value, I would think.


38 posted on 02/26/2012 5:25:14 PM PST by j_tull ("I may make you feel, but I can't make you think.")
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To: lowtaxsmallgov

I use ixquick. It’s usually good enough for me.
cuts out all the BS that I don’t want to see.


39 posted on 02/26/2012 5:33:55 PM PST by piroque ("In times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act")
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To: piroque

Do you know anything more about ixquick? Who’s behind it? Like if all conservatives, independents, and assorted other thinking people stopped using Google and started using ixquick, would money just flow to a different group of libtards?


40 posted on 02/26/2012 5:59:31 PM PST by lowtaxsmallgov (This Administration has absolutely no idea how to grow an economy)
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