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Alternatives to Google search

#1 Post by joby_toss »

I was just reading this topic and I was wondering what search alternatives to Google are you guys using (not yahoo, bing, ask or some other giant)?

I like Duckduckgo very much and I occasionally use Yippy (to quickly find download packages).

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DuckDuckGo. Though for me it's not a "Google alternative". It's simply the overall best search engine around.

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The DuckDuckGo API is something I could probably incorporate into an application, maybe a DuckDuckGo Portable app?

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I like the idea, but I'd like to know more about what this app would be able to do. Will it be able to display the results in its own window? Or something to be used by Executor, for example?

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Has anyone tried to search Duckduckgo for "portablefreeware"?
In the results there is something like this. :)

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joby_toss wrote:In the results there is something like this.
Yes -- that's the cool future home of something that's cool. Oh yes.

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#7 Post by Hydaral »

I've been using Bing, simply because I did not know about these others. I boycott Google years ago when it went from relevant searches to popular searches, but Bing seems to be going this way too.

Thanks for the suggestion for DuckDuckGo, I'll have to try it out and see if the results are actually relevant to my parameters.

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#8 Post by I am Baas »

DuckDuckGo is one of my favorites too. I use the encrypted ssl version.
Here's a list of parameters to add to a search query.

Also, there was a way to access it through TOR but I do not remember the link.

Another one I use is blekko.

Bonus for reading to this point... a cool way to search / browse Flickr.

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I am Baas wrote:Also, there was a way to access it through TOR but I do not remember the link.
I don't understand. If you have Tor installed, there's no need for a special url. If you don't, then you could use it only via some gateway and the only difference between contacting ddg directly and via gateway is that the gateway would know who you are and what you search for. I don't think it's better in any way.

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Quite impressed with DuckDuckGo. Particularly when I'm searching for PHP functions such as mysql_query as it knows exactly what I am looking for and shows the information right there on the results page.

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#11 Post by m^(2) »

I think that you're just used to dealing with some idiot that tries to act smart (and fails miserably) by replacing underscores with spaces. :P

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If that was in reply to me I haven't got a clue what you mean.

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It was a mistake. I remember when Google was such idiot, but apparently they fixed it.

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I am Baas wrote:DuckDuckGo is one of my favorites too. I use the encrypted ssl version
I like the auto-SSL firefox plugin. Good stuff.

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m^(2) wrote:
I am Baas wrote:Also, there was a way to access it through TOR but I do not remember the link.
I don't understand. If you have Tor installed, there's no need for a special url. If you don't, then you could use it only via some gateway and the only difference between contacting ddg directly and via gateway is that the gateway would know who you are and what you search for. I don't think it's better in any way.
OK, did some digging (a link to a blog post explaining the TOR hidden service is in the quote below)...
if you want to prevent sites from knowing you visited them at all, you can use a proxy like Tor. DuckDuckGo actually operates a Tor exit enclave, which means you can get end to end anonymous and encrypted searching using Tor & DDG together.

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