I've become a convert to DuckDuckGo of late. It's much cleaner, faster, simpler and less cluttered than Google - somewhat like how Google was about 10 - 12 years ago. It also seems to give me much better search results - I found a birthday present for my son that I'd been looking for via Google for ages without any lucj.
One thing you can to to make life better in Safari is to (a) set your home page to duckduckgo.com and (b) edit your hosts file so that Yahoo searches go to duckduckgo.com - then change the search box default from Google to Yahoo and it will use DuckDuckGo for all your searches. You need to add a line like this to /etc/hosts: 184.72.115.86 search.yahoo.com You can still go back to Google if you want to and no one uses Yahoo for searches anyway. Paul On 27 Jan 2012, at 19:44, mac98aop wrote: > Yes, I believe in Firefox you can go to Preferences, enter it as a > search engine and make it default. > > You can in Chrome. > > Typically, I prefer Safari, where you can't! > > Ramifications indeed, not least I hadn't realised that it Google try > to tailor their results to me.. hence if I search for something on my > wife's Mac, different results pop up compared to mine. > > That's not useful. It's annoying. > > > > On Jan 26, 7:19 pm, andrew lancaster <[email protected]> wrote: >> Can it be made the default search engine on, say, Firefox - or is it a case >> of having to go to it before running a search? >> >> I was rather startled to find how much information is retained. So, every >> time I google asthma, or alcoholic liver disease, or pancreatic cancer (I >> always look up what friends or relatives have to see if I can find anything >> that might help) I could be leaving a trail that would make, for example, >> BUPA, see me as a really bad risk? >> >> And that is only one example - the ramifications are legion. >> >> Thanks. >> On 25 Jan 2012, at 10:53 am, mac98aop wrote: >> >> >>> Using this as my search engine, and rather recommend. >> >>> Okay, it lacks a certain speed and panache of Google, but it's not >>> recording my every move, or any move for that matter, so I rather like >>> it! >> >>> Now, if only Safari would let me edit my search engine options? Why >>> WOULD Apple lock that down? >> >>> Money talks? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
