Alternatives to Google search
Re: Alternatives to Google search
Not quite a search engine but IPChicken appears to have a privacy policy similar to DDG and great for finding your public IP address.
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Startpage is a successor of Scroogle, I'm using it right now. Well see how I like it.
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Doesn't work with NoScript enabled.
But it's good anyway.
But it's good anyway.
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found on ghacks..
http://abine.com/protectedsearch/
http://abine.com/protectedsearch/
Sounds promising, as useful as DDG and SP alternatives are I've been switching to and fro Google quite often enough for them to know my browsing habbitsProtected Search is a system that mixes the requests of many different users together, such that Google is not capable of telling what is coming from whom. Protected Search aims to do a few very specific things:
Provide a system that will prevent Google from collecting information about you from services which don't require a login.
Make this system completely transparent to the user. No special websites, no change to your work flow.
Leave your non-Google traffic completely untouched, unredirected, and unaffected.
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Umm.. It just animates the search?? (it even uses the mouse instead of pressing return ) Reminds me of my mum searching google to go to facebook.comm^(2) wrote:Doesn't work with NoScript enabled.
But it's good anyway.
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abc, Protected Search only works on Firefox and about LMDDGTFY.net, correct it's the same as using LMGTFY.com.
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Re: Alternatives to Google search
And who will protect you from abine?abc wrote:found on ghacks..
http://abine.com/protectedsearch/
Sounds promising, as useful as DDG and SP alternatives are I've been switching to and fro Google quite often enough for them to know my browsing habbitsProtected Search is a system that mixes the requests of many different users together, such that Google is not capable of telling what is coming from whom. Protected Search aims to do a few very specific things:
Provide a system that will prevent Google from collecting information about you from services which don't require a login.
Make this system completely transparent to the user. No special websites, no change to your work flow.
Leave your non-Google traffic completely untouched, unredirected, and unaffected.
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Presumably their privacy policy, but of course the next question is "how is that enforced?"m^(2) wrote:And who will protect you from abine?
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DuckDuckGo links to Abine on their "Don't Track Us" site:
http://donttrack.us/ (scroll down to recommended addons)
Abine's Protected Search looks interesting, but it adds some lag with a proxy.
Update
Just installed Abine Protected Search and it looks like Abine just piggybacks off of GoogleSharing.net's proxy.
Might as well install that addon instead:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60333/
http://donttrack.us/ (scroll down to recommended addons)
Abine's Protected Search looks interesting, but it adds some lag with a proxy.
I still feel a little safer using Startpage, but Abine's approach could be useful for those that need the interface of the big G.The Protected Search system consists of a custom proxy and a Firefox Addon. The proxy works by generating a pool of Protected Search "identities," each of which contains a cookie issued by Google and an arbitrary User-Agent for one of several popular browsers. The Firefox Addon watches for requests to Google services from your browser, and when enabled will transparently redirect all of them (except for things like Gmail) to a Protected Search proxy. There your request is stripped of all identifying information and replaced with the information from a Protected Search identity.
Update
Just installed Abine Protected Search and it looks like Abine just piggybacks off of GoogleSharing.net's proxy.
Might as well install that addon instead:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60333/
is it stealth?
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I like that site.freakazoid wrote: "Don't Track Us" site: http://donttrack.us/
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DuckDuckGo is doing well and adding features.
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Cool. As a former Scroogle user, I have to confess that DD results were at times a little lacking, making me have to resort back to El Googlio, which is somethings I really could do without nowadays...webfork wrote:DuckDuckGo is doing well and adding features.
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I recently noticed that DuckDuckGo has Wolfram|Alpha integration.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=arctan%28sqrt ... 9%2Fpi*180
There is also a shorter URL.
http://ddg.gg
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=arctan%28sqrt ... 9%2Fpi*180
There is also a shorter URL.
http://ddg.gg
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\*Interesting*/
StartPage results for TRASIR with/without proxy
https://startpage.com/do/search?q=trasir
Choose the first link at the top,
Then,
Right-click 'View by Ixquick Proxy' and 'Open in new tab',
Compare,
Sweet...
StartPage results for TRASIR with/without proxy
https://startpage.com/do/search?q=trasir
Choose the first link at the top,
Then,
Right-click 'View by Ixquick Proxy' and 'Open in new tab',
Compare,
Sweet...