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    What Search Engine Do You Use?

    With all the google junk in the news recently, I have dumped it off my iphone and other computers. Currently using Bing and it seems quite capable.

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    I mostly use this one...


    DuckDuckGo

    The search engine that doesn't track you.


    If that doesn't find it then I go to Bing and then to Google.





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    The world's most private search engine: Start Page
    That's a good one; just found out about it recently.

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    DuckDuckGo...then Yahoo...Bing and Google are my last resorts...

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    Back when google was just a startup site there was one called Dogpile.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Back when google was just a startup site there was one called Dogpile.
    Yes, also altavista, hotbot, excite, inktomi (powered yahoo!)

    Search is one of my areas of interest, I have an index running with 100 million pages. It delivers "old school" results, not 5 links to google owned properties and five links to amazon. I may roll it out one day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Yes, also altavista, hotbot, excite, inktomi (powered yahoo!)

    Search is one of my areas of interest, I have an index running with 100 million pages. It delivers "old school" results, not 5 links to google owned properties and five links to amazon. I may roll it out one day.
    I started out using hotbot, and ended up preferring altavista (after discovering Boolean searches)



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    Quote Originally Posted by John View Post
    Yes, also altavista, hotbot, excite, inktomi (powered yahoo!)

    Search is one of my areas of interest, I have an index running with 100 million pages. It delivers "old school" results, not 5 links to google owned properties and five links to amazon. I may roll it out one day.
    Google is moneying themselves into something ridiculous with the first page showing amazon and other contracted interests. It had come to the point of me just clicking (iphone) the second page.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Google is moneying themselves into something ridiculous with the first page showing amazon and other contracted interests. It had come to the point of me just clicking (iphone) the second page.
    Most people don't know they are clicking on ads, especially on small screens (phones), a lot of their revenue is what they call "inadvertent clicks", of course, I call it fraud.

    They have also buried most small businesses/sites in search results while showing their silicon valley pals. Beyond that, they are really just a surveillance company, selling everything they can collect from users.

    > It had come to the point of me just clicking (iphone) the second page.

    wow. Most people never even scroll through the first page, they click the first or second available link (typically ads).

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