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> Switch to bing I've found Startpage and its sister site IxQuick to be a good alternative to Google. Same search results with a lot of detritus filtered out,
by morganvachon 8y ago
> Switch to bing
I've found Startpage and its sister site IxQuick to be a good alternative to Google. Same search results with a lot of detritus filtered out, keeps you out of Google's search bubble, and it has built in proxy features.
Instead of Bing, which tracks you for monetization on Microsoft's behalf (though I trust Microsoft with my information more than Google), try DuckDuckGo. It uses Bing as a back end but, like Startpage, proxies the query so your information and identity never hits Microsoft's servers. It's also a much cleaner page code-wise than any other search engine I've seen. It often comes up with more relevant results than Startpage; I find myself often searching both for the same subject so I don't miss what I'm looking for.
- nofunsir 8y agohttps://www.searx.me/ https://www.searx.me/
- burky 8y agoI just tried this and got an error that says "Error! -search error" when searching for the term "angular directives". Not very compelling.
- state_less 8y agoI received a similar error using Chrome, then tried in Firefox and am now getting search results.
- monetus 8y agoAny idea what's going on there?
- blotter_paper 8y agoI just tried this same search in Chrome mobile, with and without quotes, and didn't encounter this error. Not doubting you, just adding a data point.
- platinium 8y agoHonestly, does using Google even matter anymore unless you are trying to search for something extremely obscure? Most of the time, my searches are directly for products (ie, Amazon.com, Target.com, Walmart.com), people (ie fb.com), Wikipedia (first few hits on Google), locations (yelp.com, Google maps, ___ maps), recommendations (yelp.com, etc), hotels or travel (expedia.com, kayak.com, hotwire.com, united.com, southwest.com, etc) or Stackoverflow (first page of Google) — I’d wager any modern search engine such as Bing or DDG can easily present all the relevant Stackoverflow/Stackexchange/Stack{...} results you could ever desire. It’s not the same as the old days of random (important) data sprinkled across the personal/hobby pages of some knowledgeable people across Geocities — is there even a need for using Google anymore?
- wolco 8y agoYou are introducing a concept worse than google not deleting cookies. Limiting the web to a handful of sites kills the concept of the web. I would suggest spending as much time out of the top 20 popular sites as possible. Diversity is key.
- SllX 8y agoJust to chime in, I’ve found Spotlight on iOS to cover about 85% of my needs. It uses Bing for web results, but I often don’t even need the web results. Everything else I just invoke DuckDuckGo or Startpage.
- Shank 8y agoSpotlight on iOS actually sources data from Google now. See: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/25/apple-switches-from-bing-to-google-for-siri-web-search-results-on-ios-and-spotlight-on-mac/ https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/25/apple-switches-from-bing-t...
- Paraesthetic 8y agoWell.. time to throw iOS in the bin, sold out to the just be evil mob.
- SllX 8y agoI actually missed this, that said the pertinent details that would concern me and others like me are covered right here: > As is expected with Apple now, searches and results are all encrypted and anonymized and cannot be attributed to any individual user. Once you click on the ‘Show Google results’ link, of course, you’re off to Google and its standard tracking will apply. Clicking directly on a website result will take you straight there, not through Google. In effect, this is much like using Startpage instead of google.com, at least up until you load a full results page (which I actually haven't done in quite a long time now that I think about it).