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Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: vilde on 2012/03/01, 18:00:16

With Googles new "spying on me because it is good for me rules" among other shit from them I don't fell for using them anymore.

Please give me some good alternative

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: michaaa62 on 2012/03/01, 19:19:03

Because scroogle.org is history since a couple of days, i am using startpage.com for a couple of days.
At least the first three 'sponsored' links are blocked by my adblock settings, that may serve as kind of hint. ;)

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: cryptosteve on 2012/03/01, 19:48:39

Yes, startpage.com is really cool ...

Title: RE: Alternative search engine
Post by: GoinEasy9 on 2012/03/02, 04:04:18

And I have DuckDuckGo as my default search engine.

Title: RE: Alternative search engine
Post by: titan on 2012/03/02, 09:46:42

I have been using DuckDuck Go for over a year off and on and it is certainly getting better.

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: vilde on 2012/03/02, 10:06:39

Ok thanks for the suggestions, looks good.

To change to new search engines in the search bar in Iceweasel is easy but how do I change the search engine Iceweasel use when I type something in the address bar?

Edit:

Found a solution myself, http://blog.dale.id.au/archives/604

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: ayla on 2012/03/02, 10:30:32

Hi,

I changed in about:config

browser.search.defaultenginename from string "google" to "DuckDuckGo".

Works for me

Greets
ayla

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: ralul on 2012/03/02, 11:41:04

@ayla,

und wenn du noch eine Kennung "LinuxMint" einbaust, können die an deinen Klicks sogar noch mitverdienen.

... Hmm, irgendwie sollte auch siduction solch einen Sponsor haben.

-
en:
Mint can earn Money from you. But why not siduction?

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: tuxic on 2012/03/02, 12:18:58

...just noticed that startpage.com is "enhanced by Google".

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: devil on 2012/03/02, 14:01:27

from their website:

Startpage offers you Web search results from Google in complete privacy!

When you search with Startpage, we remove all identifying information from your query and submit it anonymously to Google ourselves. We get the results and return them to you in total privacy.

Your IP address is never recorded, your visit is not logged, and no tracking cookies are placed on your browser. When it comes to protecting your privacy, Startpage runs the tightest ship on the Internet. Our outstanding privacy policy and thoughtful engineering give you great search results in total anonymity. Here are some of our key features:

Free proxy surfing available.
Praised by privacy experts worldwide.
Twelve-year company track record.
Third-party certified.
No IP address recorded.
No record is made of your searches.
No identifying or tracking cookies used.
Powerful SSL encryption available.

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: nadir on 2012/03/12, 05:45:38

In general i use duckduck.go, and sometimes startpage.

I don't fully understand how seeks works, but here are public nodes:
http://www.seeks-project.info/search.php/websearch-hp
http://seeks-project.info/wiki/index.php/List_of_Web_Seeks_nodes


and yacy is completely above me (it gives me very strange results):
http://yacy.net/

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: craigevil on 2012/03/13, 23:33:55

Save settings without cookies - https://startpage.com/eng/urlgenerator-details.html

Quote

You can save your Startpage preferences by clicking on the "SAVE MY SETTING" button on the "MY SETTINGS" page.
–   This will save your settings on your computer in a 'cookie'- a small piece of data stored on your hard drive - called 'preferences'.
–   Startpage's 'preferences' cookie is a non-identifiable cookie and safe to accept, but cookies in general can pose a threat to your privacy.
–   People who prefer not to accept cookies or delete them regularly would not be able to keep their preferences this way.
–   For those people, Startpage has especially provided the "Generate URL" button at the bottom of the "MY SETTINGS" page.
–   Pushing that button a specific Startpage URL containing your selected settings will be generated.
–   It can be generated in readable or obfuscated form.
–   The generated URL can now be be directly set as your homepage or copied and used as a bookmark.
–   Using this URL all of your preferences will be used the next time you visit Ixquick.
–   Startpage continues to offer you privacy-enhancing features for searching the web safely!

duckduckgo does something similar
DuckDuckGo URL Params - https://duckduckgo.com/params.html

Plus duckduckgo works with tor, it has an onion address.
http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/

Startpage, ixquick, and duckduckgo can be searched using surfraw (http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org)

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: dpdt1 on 2012/05/16, 07:21:27

interesting link : http://searchengineland.com/scroogles-gone-heres-who-still-offers-private-searching-112275

Title: @craigdevil: surfraw/startpage
Post by: pit on 2012/05/16, 13:32:07

Quote from: "craigevil"

Startpage, ixquick, and duckduckgo can be searched using surfraw (http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org)

I didn't know surfraw. This is a really nice tool! But sadly startpage is not part of the game. I guess one could add it, but I'm not able to write the needed file in /usr/lib/surfraw.

Title: Alternative search engine
Post by: kris99 on 2012/05/17, 11:27:47

Use ixquick instead. Startpage is coming from ixquick.com

Kris