Posted on 07/01/2019 1:20:38 PM PDT by upchuck
With growing concerns over online privacy and securing personal data, more people than ever are considering alternatives to Google products. After all, Google’s business model essentially revolves around data collection and advertisements, both of which infringe on your privacy. More data means better (targeted) ads and more revenue. The company pulled in over $116 billion in ad revenue last year alone – and that number continues to grow.
A growing number of people are seeking alternatives to Google products that respect their privacy and data. This guide aims to be the most exhaustive resource available for documenting alternatives to Google product. So let’s get started (in no particular order or preference)...
StartPage – StartPage gives you Google search results, but without the tracking (based in the Netherlands).
Searx – A privacy-friendly and versatile metasearch engine that’s also open source.
MetaGer – An open source metasearch engine with good features, based in Germany.
SwissCows – A zero-tracking private search engine based in Switzerland, hosted on secure Swiss infrastructure.
Qwant – A private search engine based in France.
DuckDuckGo – A private search engine based in the US.
Mojeek – The only true search engine (rather than metasearch engine) that has its own crawler and index (based in the UK).
YaCy – A decentralized, open source, peer-to-peer search engine.
Givero – Based in Denmark, Givero offers more privacy than Google and combines search with charitable donations.
Ecosia – Ecosia is based in Germany and donates a part of revenues to planting trees.
Note: With the exception of Mojeek, all of the private search engines above are technically metasearch engines, since they source their results from other search engines, such as Bing and Google.
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Everything I do at my job is linked to g__gle
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Alternatives? To google? So, google is not a monopoly?
Oh, noes. What am I going to tell the dog?
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Is there a good search engine that approximates Google circa 2012? Before the algorithm days when it was an actual search engine.
Google results today are only tangentially related to the search terms, and often completely different. It is normal now to search 5 or 6 times and never locate something that you have easily found in the past.
I keep hearing duckduckgo, but that just seems like anonymous Bing at best.
It is all about stupidity driven hypocrisy.
The article sez ddg is a meta search engine. But it's still my search engine. Haven't used Google in years. No reason to.
I’ve used DuckDuckGo for about five years.
I’ve been using duck duck go for a while now...don’t miss google at all
I used google advanced search all along, so was unaware of the way search engines work currently.
I’ll use google now for phrase searches as duckduckgo doesn’t honor quotation marks very well. If I do a search for “Mary Celeste,” ddg give me too many hits from “mary” alone, which kills the utility of phrase searching.
Other wise I’ll use ddg, which doesn’t load up the results page with nearly so much crap.
I like it as an idea, but it doesn’t do as good as google did up until 4 years ago or so.
I like the no tracking of it, but would like much better search results.
I thought it might be me. Glad to know others noticed searches are poorer now.
I hear you bro, it’s a TOTAL problem.
The promise of the ‘net is toast.
I’ve been using duck duck on all my devices and I have no complaints. Horrific name though. What were they thinking?
You would think it would be a fantastic business opportunity for someone.
Is there anything wrong with using Bing?
I’ve been using duckduckgo for a couple years now with good results. I found out what Google was doing and stumbled into it, did the comparison and was converted.
Say you want to find out about Hillary’s email investigation.
Type in
Hillary Clinton cri
Just that much should kick in their suggestion box.
(looking for Hillary Clinton Criminal investigation)
Check what Google’s suggestion box gives you. Now do the same at duckduckgo, I used two tabs. Google didn’t have a thing related to criminal anything, duckduckgo had it right up top. I think “criminal investigation” was 2nd in their list.
This is why you can’t find things you know you found earlier, Google is scrubbing them from its search results. In some cases I can’t find it even on duckduckgo, so I’m pretty sure a lot of stuff is simply being scrubbed from the internet altogether.
Now that Google owns Youtube, that is happening to a lot of youtube content that is detrimental to the liberal narrative. They just delete it once they find out it shows a conservative point of view. Google is also shutting down entire youtube accounts by conservatives. Same as Facebook and Twitter.
Gab is a fairly good alternative to twitter, the big tech companies have pulled it from the google app store and pulled a lot of their advertisers away, not sure how it is going to go.
www.gab.com I think.
I’ve been checking out bitchute, seems pretty decent so far for video, Proton Mail has a pretty good reputation for email, I need to set up an account, been dragging my feet...
www.bitchute.com
What really sucks is I was one of the people who helped make Google popular. I was moderator of one of the best tech support forums around, at PC Guide. We found out about google when it was unknown, checked it out for a few weeks, and started pointing people in their direction since it was fast and the results were good. At that time, Infoseek was the only game in town, nobody else could touch it. Dogpile was available, but not as good as infoseek and both were slow. Google was faster and results were just as good, so we started recommending it. I recommended google hundreds of times...We were looking for drivers and computer tech info constantly. (Jumper settings and such. Older 486 and early Pentium motherboards required a jumper setting to set the CPU speed. We had to look that up daily. In some cases other jumpers were required.) Fast made a big difference, good results were mandatory.
Now I really regret it...speed was a major concern, broadband didn’t exist yet, only dial up and in rural areas with 21,400 to 33,600 the fastest connection you could get, (19,200 was a good day for me out here) a fast search engine was like manna from heaven. Google had nothing but their small logo and a search box, and was fast. Not even the graphics they use today...But now they are too big and abusing their power.
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