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Posted November 15, 2012
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OldFatGuy: ???
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Psyringe: SCNR = "sorry could not resist"

Ah, these young 'uns without proper usenet education ... ;)
Thanks.
Posted November 15, 2012
I held on to yahoo a long time but I can't imagine using anything but google now. I haven't even tried Bing, mostly because MS, while not evil, is not a company I like supporting if I don't need to.

It kind of is a shame there aren't more alternatives.
Posted November 15, 2012
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Randalator: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+alternatives

SCNR
Considering the first site they offer me, I'm suspecting a conspiracy by google ;-)
Posted November 15, 2012
When I need a google search I use http://www.startpage.com
For most searches I switch between them and duckduckgo. I try to avoid google when possible, I don't trust them either
Posted November 15, 2012
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SimonG: I don't like google. Never have, never will. And I trust them roughly as far as I can throw them. Never trust a company that says "do no evil". Never trust a company that pretends it is your friend. I like asshole companies. I can work with asshole companies. We see eye to eye. But I really don't like google.

But I still use it. A lot. It didn't get its market dominance for being a bad search engine and I still remember how I loved it the day I discovered it.

That is also the problem. I can't find an alternative that I actually like enough to get me of google for good.

I'm currently using DuckDuckGo, as it has been recommended to be by a friend. Are there any other, maybe better alternatives I should try?

And yes, Elenarie, I tried Bing. I don't like it. ;-P
The only thing that spams harder than Google is Bing.

Back in the day I figured it was all going to be Yahoo forever. Now a days Yahoo is just good for pulling up nefarious sites.
Posted November 15, 2012
Startpage is what I use.
Posted November 15, 2012
I also switched to Startpage, which uses anonymized Google results. If you don't want Google results at all, Ixquick is from the same company.

Honestly, it's still not quite as good as Google, but it is good enough most of the time - if I really don't find something, I still use Google, but I tend to avoid it.

I also don't know if it's Startpage in general, or just because I use Opera, but the Image search is kinda buggy.

If you want to avoid other Google services, OpenStreetMap is a pretty damn good alternative to Google Maps, thanks to it's decentralized Wiki-approach
Post edited November 16, 2012 by Fesin
Posted November 16, 2012
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FantasyNightmare: Yahoo?
I don't know if it has improved, but I personally stopped using it one or two years ago when I noticed that even simple things that were easily to be found with Google, gave quite useless links in Yahoo. So their database or search engine wasn't simply up to par with Google.

Before that Yahoo was always my default search page for many many years, it was even my starting page on my old PC.

Also, I find Yahoo's starting page messy, maybe there is some lightweight version of it. I prefer Google's simple lightweight design.
Posted November 16, 2012
Definitely startpage. Ixquick is good as well to get a broader search but it's more of a last resort.
Posted November 16, 2012
Duckduckgo is probably the best alternative out there. If you don't like Bing, Google or Yahoo I think your options are rather limited. At least as far as good options go...
Post edited November 16, 2012 by Gunsang
Posted November 17, 2012
Anyone knows the difference between duckduckgo and startpage when it comes to privacy?
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