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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The entire point of a search engine is to find things. If they can't be trusted for that, or someone does the job better, they'll go the way of Altavista. Does anyone remember them?
Sure do. Late 1990s, early 2000s. Bought out by Yahoo if my memory serves. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
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Thanks for posting this.
You’re welcome!
Kind of defeats the whole purpose and idea behind a "search engine".
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
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I use Bing for search engines.
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Thank you! I have been a user of DuckDuckGo for probably four years, but I think, because Goober is such an insidious part of the Interwebs, I will change to Mojeek.
Goober even tells me where I drive every month and I don’t think that’s even one bit clever. I think I’ll disable it from my phone and try and find hard copies of local maps...
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Privacy Bump! Thanks.
Re: Mojeek
The drop down search box saves your searches so if the little lady is over your shoulder on a search a previous search for “Jennifer Anniston Bikini” will be right there on your 27” screen.
No easy fix yet. Just FYI. ;-)
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Does your phone have a desktop mode? I have Edge on my phone and it has a desktop view mode.
Because Microsoft is pulling support for the Windows 10 phone, I got a Motorola Z4. I’m forced to use Google maps, otherwise I installed everything Microsoft. I really miss the maps. I removed Google search.
I can attach “mods” to the back of the phone like JBL speakers or an extra battery. That’s a Motorola innovation, and it’s brilliant. It also syncs to my Surface.
Nah, I still use a flip phone, 3 G. I am of the mind that a phone is for making telephone calls. That’s it!
Triple A (AAA) has local paper maps. But there's a yearly membership fee.
There are other online sources for maps. Bing, Rand McNally, Open Streets, Mapquest, etc.
Use AAA maps. They rarely fail me. My next car will be pre2003, or earlier, no computer anything, no discs, no chips no anything, just an engine and a few car seats...oh and AAA maps...and my guns.
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