Search engine with better privacy!

[Kingcapone]

Been watching all these Google conspiracy videos online and have got a bit paranoid at the fact they make a profile for your IP & can apparently predict what your going to search with a 90% accuracy rate.

I know its probably just to fine tune ads to me but its better to be safe than sorry :) so dispite being scared of Google, I did some Googling and found - www.startpage.com it use's Google results so its essentially a proxy!.

P.S does anybody know any fast real proxy's that don't store IP's?
(I'm in the UK)

[Paqman]

There's also www.ixquick.com, which promises not to store any information about you at all.

[sffvba[e0rt]

Duck Duck GO!

http://duckduckgo.com/

[doas777]

scroogle (https://ssl.scroogle.org/)

[coolbrook]

+1

;-)

[Kingcapone]

There's also www.ixquick.com, which promises not to store any information about you at all.

Startpage's twin :O


Duck Duck GO!

http://duckduckgo.com/

This is what elementary use as their default isn't it? looks updated since I last saw it!

[Dry Lips]

There's also www.ixquick.com (http://www.ixquick.com), which promises not to store any information about you at all.

Startpage's twin :O


Yes, you're right. Startpage is just ixquick that has been rebranded...

Personally I like Duckduckgo best, but all three search engines
that has been mentioned are great.

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Here's a thought: Scroogle accepts donations: http://www.scroogle.org/ <<<<
Why don't we support them a little? (I don't know if ixquick and duckduckgo
accepts donations...)

[jerenept]

Duck Duck GO!

http://duckduckgo.com/

You mean HTTPS? https://duckduckgo.com/

[Dry Lips]

You mean HTTPS? https://duckduckgo.com/
I agree, you'd better use https! ixquick also offer https, but you have to make sure
that you go to https://www.ixquick.com/

[sffvba[e0rt]

You mean HTTPS? https://duckduckgo.com/

Not sure... if you say so :)

[Dry Lips]

Not sure... if you say so :)

The difference is (unless I've misunderstood something, correct
me if I'm wrong) that when you use http your search terms are
transmitted in clear-text, and could be read by people using
packet sniffers, or even your ISP.

When you use https, your search terms are encrypted and thus
are kept private.

[el_koraco]

There was a search engine created by some former Google devs, that proised to improve the searching algorithms, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. Seemed pretty good.

[forrestcupp]

There was a search engine created by some former Google devs, that proised to improve the searching algorithms, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. Seemed pretty good.

Bing

[Dry Lips]

There was a search engine created by some former Google devs, that proised to improve the searching algorithms, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called. Seemed pretty good.

I just googled (or rather duckduckgo'ed) it... Is this the one your were thinking
about? >>>>

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2008/07/30/oukin-uk-internet-search-idUKN2741939220080730

Evidently they shut down:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cuil

"Cuil's privacy policy, unlike that of other search engines, said it did not store
users’ search activity or IP addresses."

[Thewhistlingwind]

Bing

Forrest, you know as well as I do that bing has no search algorithms, they just randomize the results they get from google.:popcorn:

[Dry Lips]

Forrest, you know as well as I do that bing has no search algorithms, they just randomize the results they get from google.:popcorn:
Actually I think all the search engines mentioned so far in this thread
are "metacrawlers". In other words, they don't search the web, they
search other engines.

[NightwishFan]

Duck Duck GO!

http://duckduckgo.com/

Yes! I love DDG. Just amazing usability. The first thing I do when I use a new browser is set ddg as default.

https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html

Edit: Duckduckgo does search other engines but it also has it's own bot.

[Dry Lips]

Edit: Duckduckgo does search other engines but it also has it's own bot.

Really? Didn't know that! :)

[el_koraco]

Bing

:lolflag:

Dry Lips - yes, that's the one. I used it for a few days and liked it a lot. Forgot about it afterwards.

[NightwishFan]

Really? Didn't know that! :)

https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckbot.html

[Dry Lips]

Dry Lips - yes, that's the one. I used it for a few days and liked it a lot. Forgot about it afterwards.

I think such an alternative to Google was really needed. Too bad it didn't work out for them.

PC Magazine reported that on the morning of September 17, 2010 "employees were told about Cuil's demise [...] and the servers were taken offline five hours later." Laid-off employees were told they would not be paid. The shutdown reportedly came after an acquisition agreement fell through earlier in the week.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cuil

[aysiu]

Good for people for finding search engines that work for them.

I've read over Google's privacy policy thoroughly and seen them refuse to hand over subpoenaed search data when all the other major search engines handed that data over to the US government without a thought. I don't have any problems with privacy when it comes to Google, and I'm glad they've been able to use aggregate user search data to improve their search engine results (anyone who thinks Google employees have time to poke around individual searches flatters herself about her own importance).

Individual search data doesn't make Google money. Aggregate data makes them money.

[forrestcupp]

Forrest, you know as well as I do that bing has no search algorithms, they just randomize the results they get from google.:popcorn:Don't give them that much credit! Bing just compares your search entry to a list of their advertisers. ;)


Good for people for finding search engines that work for them.

I've read over Google's privacy policy thoroughly and seen them refuse to hand over subpoenaed search data when all the other major search engines handed that data over to the US government without a thought. I don't have any problems with privacy when it comes to Google, and I'm glad they've been able to use aggregate user search data to improve their search engine results (anyone who thinks Google employees have time to poke around individual searches flatters herself about her own importance).

Individual search data doesn't make Google money. Aggregate data makes them money.
+1

Somehow, out of the 2 billion searches per day that Google logs, I doubt if any actual human is engrossed in all of the things that little ol' me searches for.

[NightwishFan]

Yes I agree. People worry about web privacy a lot.. As far as I am concerned there is no privacy and I just do not search or say anything I do not want brought back to me.

I just use the duck because it is better. :)

[aysiu]

I just use the duck because it is better. :) I totally respect that. If you like DuckDuckGo for the quality of the product, I'm all for that.

[Thewhistlingwind]

I totally respect that. If you like DuckDuckGo for the quality of the product, I'm all for that.

I'm tempted to set it as my homepage, as it's the one of the fastest loading websites I've ever seen.

[Kingcapone]

Good for people for finding search engines that work for them.

I've read over Google's privacy policy thoroughly and seen them refuse to hand over subpoenaed search data when all the other major search engines handed that data over to the US government without a thought. I don't have any problems with privacy when it comes to Google, and I'm glad they've been able to use aggregate user search data to improve their search engine results (anyone who thinks Google employees have time to poke around individual searches flatters herself about her own importance).

Individual search data doesn't make Google money. Aggregate data makes them money.

Google supposted to be a CIA project thats why they dont hand it over!

Check this out! http://www.infowars.com/facebook-google-are-cia-fronts/