Use Ixquick as your homepage and search engine.
I don't think yall are getting the seriousness of this, it loads no matter what you do, it is built into the browsers put out now days. I use Startpage (which is owned by same company as Ixquick). I don't use google anything. It is still there and there is some out there that know how to defeat it. I am not one of them. It does not load in the list of cookies that can be deleted.
I use these privacy add-ons with Firefox. Adblock Edge (with extra lists added to block), Block Site, Clear Console (that delete all cookies after browser shutdown, except the google pref cookie), Flashblock, Ghostery, and Remove it Permanently.
It is not something I am doing, it is what they have done (bought browsers and contaminated them with spyware).