Google is an excellent search engine. If you have privacy concerns, don't store your personal information with Google. It's really that simple. Switching to oth

Google is an excellent search engine. If you have privacy concerns, don't store your personal information with Google. It's really that simple. Switching to other search engines because of privacy concerns is just silly in my opinion. I have those concerns as well, but instead of missing out on Google search I choose to not use any of Google's other services (e.g. Gmail, G+, etc.) that would store my personal information (and possibly tie it to my searches). If you want to take advantage of webmaster tools, analystics, etc. just create an account just for that, and don't use it for actual communication.