[upchuck]

The article also reports on alternatives to Gmail, Chrome, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Photos, Youtube, Google Translate, Google Analytics (used here on FR), Google Maps, Google Play Store, Google Chrome OS, Android, Google Hangouts, Google Domains, and others.

[upchuck]

Tech ping.

[subterfuge]

Everything I do at my job is linked to g__gle

[Pontiac]

Bookmarked

Thanks.

[sparklite2]

Alternatives? To google? So, google is not a monopoly?
Oh, noes. What am I going to tell the dog?

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

bookmark

[DesertRhino]

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.

[Ohioan]

Where Google is in a class by itself:

Absurdity At Google

It is all about stupidity driven hypocrisy.

[crusty old prospector]

I’ve used DuckDuckGo for about five years.

[DouglasKC]

I’ve been using duck duck go for a while now...don’t miss google at all

[A Cyrenian]

What's up chuck?

Is there anything wrong with using Bing?

[MacNaughton]

I have used Dogpile.com searching for images. Works fairly well - better than DDG, though I use DDG for all other searches. Within the last 3 months Dogpile.com added the nuisance “robot checker” and the nuisance “check which images contain a …”

[Hostage]

Good timing. I was just thinking and exploring a divorce from Google.

It’s time.

[NTHockey]

My desktop uses Ask.com as default search engine. Unfortunately, it is not available on tablets or phones.

[dynachrome]

Start page or duckduckgo accessed thru TOR.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Bookmark

[poconopundit]

Hmm. I wonder how many of these brands have secret deals with Google to share data with them.

I’m pretty sure Mozilla shares its browser data with Google.

[TexasTransplant]

bkmk

[Bob434]

[[StartPage – StartPage gives you Google search results, but without the tracking (based in the Netherlands)]]

I dunno- them thar Netherlandians I don’t trust- You never hear anything about them- and ya know what they say “Don’t trust the silent types’

[matthew fuller]

Thanks for this reference!

[Conservative4Life]

bump