What search engine do you normally use?
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What search engine do you normally use?
"It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so." -- Artemus Ward aka Charles Farrar Brown
Why Baidu ? (Score:1)
Surely they should have had Startpage [startpage.com] here instead..
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...privately.
That's what you think.
Remember that 'secure' mail service in Zwitserland? Everything was encrypted with private keys which were under the control of the company, but they promised to never ever hand over the contents of your communications to any agency.
Turned out they just handed over the private keys to the NSA.
Good luck with those promises.
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Google with reservations (Score:2)
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You can switch of tailoring to country by using the url google.com/ncr
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like any good geek i use wget | grep (Score:1)
Sure takes a few months to find the a pizza place but Google and Facebook's ad engine is not stearing me to the highest bidder...
I lost ten pounds last yeat for a type (piza!=pizza)
Startpage (Score:2)
Google proxy.
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Re: Searx (Score:2)
I usually use Duck Duck Go but (Score:2)
I used clusty.com now yippy.com for years.
It's really nice since it clusters results in categories on the left side.
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GOOG - DDG (Score:2)
Google has better search results than others though. :(
Still looking for the best image search engine (Score:4, Interesting)
I now use DuckDuckGo for text but Bing for images. ...) ... eh ... Bing, and I'm not proud of it.
I used to use Google for images until it stopped providing direct links to images. (I'm a image hoarder
I tried Yandex as a replacement for Google but it annoyed me with a Captcha every other time I tried to search images directly from the address bar.
So now I use
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*nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*
Say no more...
DuckDuckGo since a long time (Score:3)
Ctrl-f (Score:2)
Duckduckgo - no new page required (Score:2)
Unlike Google, DDG allows you to page down ALL the results. A small but significant bonus when you are looking for something obscure.
Another poorly worde poll, but... (Score:3)
Given the way the question was worded, I had to accept the convenience of google. However for anything sensitive I do NOT use the google. Never been able to find any major advantages of most of the others. However, I'm not going to say what other privacy-protection measures I employ since that would only attract targeting... I say certain things are my personal business, but the google has no such conception, not being a person of any sort.
Jeeves. (Score:2)
Ask Jeeves.
Is Altavista still a thing?
k.
I want to use DuckDuckGo, but find it lacking (Score:2)
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Most people in the US are more worried about corporations handing over their data to other corporations (like Cambridge Analytica) as government requests thus far have been limited to dark-webers and bombing suspects. However, given Trump's willingness to openly abuse power in-order to punish political foes, this no longer seems wise.
These two. (Score:1)
MetaGer and Searx.
I've detached myself from Google (to the greatest extent possible with browser add-ons, etc.) about two years ago.
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Gopher of course! (Score:2)
Re: Gopher of course! (Score:2)
Of course. Why use anything else?
https://simple.m.wikipedia.org... [wikipedia.org]
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Ecosia (Score:1)