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scubscub
June 12th, 2012, 01:05 AM
Hello,

since the lamented demise of Scroogle I have been searching high and low for another search engine to take it's place. I've tried:

startpage
ixquick
privatelee, and
duckduckgo

But none of these have really satisfied, and in most cases, they outright stink. Common problems include push, false positives, and failure to return results which are actually there.

Are there any other decent alternatives out there that I'm missing? Please help, I'm getting so demoralized I'm about to just go to (shudder) google...

vasa1
June 12th, 2012, 02:55 AM
Doesn't seem like a "security" issue or to do with Ubuntu, per se.

hansdown
June 12th, 2012, 03:16 AM
Hi scubscub.

Maybe you just need the right addons.

I use duckduckgo for my search engine, and firefox for my browser, with ghostery added for the fun of knowing which ad companies are interested.

Do not track is also a good option.

scubscub
June 12th, 2012, 03:44 AM
Ghostery sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

I didn't care for DuckDuckGo because the results often come back with a box at the top with their own chosen links -- that's "push" in my opinion, I just want the search results.

I tried Duckduckgo/lite for a while -- it gives numbered search results, which I liked, but had a problem with returning far fewer results than were actually out there. It was common to get, like, three results, followed by a suggestion that I "try google or bing"...

hansdown
June 12th, 2012, 03:51 AM
Ghostery sounds interesting, I'll check it out.

I didn't care for DuckDuckGo because the results often come back with a box at the top with their own chosen links -- that's "push" in my opinion, I just want the search results.

I tried Duckduckgo/lite for a while -- it gives numbered search results, which I liked, but had a problem with returning far fewer results than were actually out there. It was common to get, like, three results, followed by a suggestion that I "try google or bing"...

That is anoying, but I've gotten used to ignoring that first link.

Addblock plus is another good addon.

wacky_sung
June 12th, 2012, 03:59 PM
DuckDuckgo is still the best at the moment.

Hungry Man
June 12th, 2012, 11:04 PM
I agree and also use DuckDuckGo.

The box at the top makes it usable.

Ms. Daisy
June 13th, 2012, 12:11 AM
At the risk of being ridiculed within an inch of my life...

Why don't you just use Google? I don't think there's a search engine that can accept so many advanced search operators. Therefore nothing compares in my mind.

If you're worried about big bad Google tracking what you do, then give these a read:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2105435/Google-privacy-policy-changes-How-web-history-private--simple-3-step-solution.html

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/5_ways_to_keep_your_google_browsing_private.php

Hungry Man
June 13th, 2012, 12:38 AM
Mostly because to use Google I'd have to read those and assure myself I'm not being tracked whereas with DDG I don't have to do anything.

I don't mind tracking too much I'd just rather avoid it for most things. I end up using google often though for images or more specific searches where I need to correlate dates.

donnadon
June 13th, 2012, 02:51 PM
better search engines that I know are Google, Yahoo, Bing, Baidu, ASK, Yandex etc ;)

scubscub
June 13th, 2012, 05:26 PM
Thanks, Donnadon, but I think that post qualifies as "unclear on the concept"...

zombifier25
June 14th, 2012, 02:08 PM
I use Google, along with a script that removes all tracking from search URL, Cookie Monster (so that all Google cookies are wiped out on exit), Ghostery, etc. etc. :D

Ms. Daisy
June 14th, 2012, 04:13 PM
Where did you get the script, zombifier25? Is it something you can share?

wacky_sung
June 14th, 2012, 04:50 PM
Where did you get the script, zombifier25? Is it something you can share?

I have been using it as well for long.

Ghostery Link
http://www.ghostery.com/

Addon download
http://www.ghostery.com/download

zombifier25
June 15th, 2012, 03:17 AM
Where did you get the script, zombifier25? Is it something you can share?

https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/12917
Its main purpose is to make Google black, but it also turns the cryptic redirect URL that you usually get from Google into the real destination.

(for some reason, when I try disabling/enabing addons to see if the script works (and it does work), I found that NoScript does this also. Didn't know that. I'll check again later)

sffvba[e0rt
June 15th, 2012, 03:27 AM
Thread moved to The Community Cafe.

Not an Ubuntu support question.


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