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Papas Fritas writes:
"There's an interesting read today by John Paul Titlow at FastCoLabs about DuckDuckGo, a search engine launched in 2008 that is now doing 4 million search queries per day and growing 200-500% annually. DuckDuckGo's secret weapon is hardcore privacy. When you do a search from DuckDuckGo's website or one of its mobile apps, it doesn't know who you are. There are no user accounts. Your IP address isn't logged by default. The site doesn't use search cookies to keep track of what you do over time or where else you go online.
'If you look at the logs of people's search sessions, they're the most personal thing on the Internet,' says founder Gabriel Weinberg. 'Unlike Facebook, where you choose what to post, with search you're typing in medical and financial problems and all sorts of other things. You're not thinking about the privacy implications of your search history.' DuckDuckGo's no-holds-barred approach to privacy gives the search engine a unique selling point as Google gobbles up more private user data. 'It was extreme at the time,' says Weinberg. 'And it still may be considered extreme by some people, but I think it's becoming less extreme nowadays. In the last year, it's become obvious why people don't want to be tracked.'"
(Score: 5, Informative) by etherscythe on Thursday February 20 2014, @10:58PM
That, and the quality of search results, was my concern with it when I first looked for an alt-Google. I've settled on Startpage [startpage.com] (or Ixquick [ixquick.com] for those who like a metasearch option). They have sponsored results, but the user details are not shared as detailed here [startpage.com].
Follow the money, as they say. Also note that Ixquick has been certified by an EU privacy initiative, for whatever that's worth.
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(Score: 1) by martyb on Thursday February 20 2014, @11:28PM
etherscythe wrote:
I was unaware of those two search engines; thanks for the links!
So, my fellow Soylenters, what do YOU use for a search engine when you don't use google, bing, or duckduckgo?
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(Score: 2, Informative) by maxwell demon on Friday February 21 2014, @12:11AM
Well, that thread reminded me of metager, [metager.de] which I had used years ago, but somehow forgotten about. I now looked, and they also have a policy of not tracking users [metager.de], and they even offer a TOR hidden service search.
Given that I haven't used it for years, I naturally can't tell how good the search results are. However one nice point is that they tell you which search engine found the specific links (which includes search engines I've never even heard about).
BTW, Soylent News is link #15 when searching for Soylent News. ;-) [metager.de]
One advantage of Startpage/Ixquick is that they by default use POST instead of GET, so your search terms don't show up in your browser history.
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