IMHO, Google is on a slippery slope. Good luck to them /s. In the mean time I’ll continue using search engines other than Google:
Start Page
Duck Duck Go
Dog Pile
Ixquick
Etc.
Yep. Screw google. i haven’t used them in years.
Bing?
“Start Page
Duck Duck Go
Dog Pile
Ixquick”
Tried them all and quickly rejected them as they don’t do the job for me. I spend too much time looking up technical data and Google/Bing give me a better short list of hits because of the way they ‘learn’ from my searches.
I’ve been using Bing for a year or more. Yes, it’s MS but less PC than Google (I’m not going to get into an argument over that - if you disagree, so be it).
Results (hits) are just about identical.
For private stuff, which now includes Paypal after the post here a few days ago about their new (lack of) privacy policy, I use virtual machines - a technology that anyone interested in decreasing their internet footprint should get familiar with. It’s not complex anymore.
I know there are other search engines out there besides Google. Bing is one. I have stayed away from BING b/c they don’t have their own email setup. Then, there are these three;
Duck Duck Go, Dogpile, Ixquick.
I have not been attracted to these three for what may seem to be a very silly reason; I don’t like the way the names sound. All three of these search tools have a short or minor sound to their vowels. Google has the long sounding vowel of O as in; GOO-Gal
DuckDuckGo = Sounds irritating, Ixquick = Not at all melodious, and hard to spell or remember, Dogpile= Makes me think of guess what? Something repulsive i.e. A pile of Dog waste.
If Google continues reshaping itself to serve the needs of Obama and the other Socialists in the world, I may just have to get used to those other sites, whether I enjoy the sound of the name or not.
Bing.