On Sat 11 Jul 2015 23:50:09 NZST +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote: > People unhappy with the "assistance" that Google give tend to use an > alternative search engine, usually https://duckduckgo.com
Dunno about "usually", I found duck's results not so overwhelming so moved on, but keep it as choice. The list includes https://ixquick.com/ https://startpage.com/ Likewise, they promise not to track anything. Run by a Dutch company, as far as I can tell. They say ixquick results are from their own conglomeration of engines (meta search engine), startpage uses google but acts as a smoke screen. As such, startpage gives results similar to google and it's a good last resort. From a brief period of testing I found ixquick slightly better than duck. Both allow personal preferences to be set either as URL parameter (create, bookmark) or cookie. https://swisscows.ch/ Closest to google in search result quality, sometimes better, as they make an effort to get rid of shopping drivel when you're looking for tech info (or something like that). Any others to add? Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann http://volker.top.geek.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
