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Looking for a search engine (vanity)
my addled brain ^ | 4/4/2018 | Me

Posted on 04/04/2018 10:12:47 AM PDT by freedumb2003

Does anyone know of a GOOD search engine?

I want to get off of Google for many reasons -- I don't care about tracking since I anonymize but when they stopped linking direct URLs to images that was the last straw.

But Yahoo (I know almost as as bad) mostly returns other search engine results -- Google is much better at listing direct results.

Alta Vista and Dogpile (am I old?) also disappoint.

Thanks for the bazillion suggestions smarter/more experienced FReepers will provide!


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1 posted on 04/04/2018 10:12:47 AM PDT by freedumb2003
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To: freedumb2003

I use Duckduckgo and have no issues.


2 posted on 04/04/2018 10:13:59 AM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority STILL Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: freedumb2003

Start page, Duck Duck go. For browsers, Epic, Vivaldi, Brave, etc....


3 posted on 04/04/2018 10:15:16 AM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: abigkahuna

I agree. Duck duck go. And brave as a browser.


4 posted on 04/04/2018 10:17:52 AM PDT by coon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death)
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To: freedumb2003

https://www.startpage.com/

The world’s most private search engine.


5 posted on 04/04/2018 10:19:30 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: freedumb2003

If you liked Firefox browser, try Pale Moon or Waterfox.

Ixquick or Duckduckgo search engines


6 posted on 04/04/2018 10:19:50 AM PDT by AF_Blue ("This place has got everything." - Jake Blues)
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To: freedumb2003

I used Duckduckgo. I do not touch Google or Facebook. They are enemy spies.


7 posted on 04/04/2018 10:20:17 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: pgkdan

Yep, Duckduckgo. Outstanding.


8 posted on 04/04/2018 10:20:39 AM PDT by raiderboy (The lie "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall" DJT)
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To: freedumb2003

BING seems to be better than Google.


9 posted on 04/04/2018 10:26:32 AM PDT by Imnidiot (This space for Rent)
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To: freedumb2003

Netscape?...............


10 posted on 04/04/2018 10:27:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: Imnidiot

Bing is Micro$oft, Duck duck and go is Google, I think.

Only IxQuick/Startpage seems reasonable


11 posted on 04/04/2018 10:29:00 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: freedumb2003

I use DuckDuckGo. They don’t spy on you.


12 posted on 04/04/2018 10:36:02 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: freedumb2003
"Alta Vista and Dogpile (am I old?)"
-- Haven't used those in at least a decade! Here ya go:


https://www.ixquick.com/eng

"The Best Private Search Engines — Alternatives to Google"
https://hackernoon.com/untraceable-search-engines-alternatives-to-google-811b09d5a873
13 posted on 04/04/2018 10:38:25 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: Red Badger
"Netscape?"
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Tell me you're joking there.
14 posted on 04/04/2018 10:40:59 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: LouieFisk

Only half........................


15 posted on 04/04/2018 10:41:25 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: Imnidiot

I’ve used Bing. The problem is that Bing prioritizes images in search results.


16 posted on 04/04/2018 10:42:55 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: AF_Blue
"If you liked Firefox browser, try Pale Moon or Waterfox."
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Or Comodo Ice Dragon:
https://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/icedragon-browser.php
17 posted on 04/04/2018 10:43:33 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: freedumb2003

Alta Vista is still in business? That used to be one of my favorites, but I thought it disappeared years ago.


18 posted on 04/04/2018 10:58:57 AM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Berosus

“Alta Vista is still in business? That used to be one of my favorites, but I thought it disappeared years ago.”

Alta Vista was subsumed by Yahoo. In their prime, Alta Vista used a “meta-scrape” of the entire public internet (admittedly smaller back then) to make searches very fast.

Miss that mountainous horizon that was their banner.

duckduckgo is the way to go.....

KYPD


19 posted on 04/04/2018 11:20:35 AM PDT by petro45acp (It is just that the left,progressive,socialist,antifa,fascist endgame seems so inhuman...unfree)
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To: pgkdan

Another bump for DuckDuckgo


20 posted on 04/04/2018 11:38:54 AM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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