Duck Duck Go.And what free email service does DDG offer? What video hosting platform? What kind of paid ad service do they offer for your website? What traffic and map services does DDG have? What thermostat do they sell? How about a watch that tracks biological indicators? Does DDG offer a laptop, browser, payment service, or cloud storage? Did DDG develop and semi-release a smartphone OS that handles something like 85% of the world's phones? Does DDG own a human-user test that's pretty much got a 100% monopoly? (reCaptcha)
https://acquiredby.co/what-companies-does-google-own/Avoiding Google and stopping them from collecting your data isn't as easy as using DDG for websearches instead. Google's tentacles are almost EVERYWHERE. If you have Pale Moon (or I think Firefox still has this), then press 'F12'. It'll open a developer tools console, and one of the very first things you'll see is "script ... google-analytics.com/urchin". If you want to avoid Google, you'd better drop Free Republic from your favorites list.