Alternatives to Google search

m^(2) · **Posted:** Sun Jun 24, 2012 9:19 pm

dot wrote:

I don't see any ad. Just that one self-promotional "Sponsored Links:" above the results that says: "This could be your advertisement!". On the top right, I can now see "Sponsor Ad" with just some tiny text that doesn't look like an ad.

So you do see the exact 2 ads that I do...

joby_toss · **Posted:** Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:08 pm

Google Shopping Censors All Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results

Quote:

Google sent out an email to Google Adwords customers saying that they are going to pull all Google Shopping results for guns, ammunition, gun optics and gun accessories (Shopping results, not general search results).

http://youtu.be/i-cfe1OLNdA

Yeah, it's true. So, what do you think it's next?

Midas · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:59 am

Although on a personal level I deeply agree with Google's initiative, there's no way of denying that's censoring.

m^(2) · **Posted:** Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:23 pm

Nothing new, google's been censoring for ages for different purposes; political (China, Cuba), law compliance (there have been court orders to censor particular pieces in almost all countries), other (i.e. removing 'torrent' from autocomplete).

Distributed services are the only way to avoid such issues. When it comes to search engines, there's YaCy. ATM it sucks, but hopefully it will improve.

joby_toss · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:03 pm

I've just tried to find out more about yesterday's terrorist attack in Burgas (WWIII is near, but that's another discussion), and DDG showed NO results about this on the first page, while Gooogle and Bing were full... I tried many search strings, to no avail. ... Why? Is there a setting somewhere, or...? Strange, unexpected result...

m^(2) · **Posted:** Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:26 pm

I don't know what's up, but DDG results are sometimes totally off...

carbonize · **Posted:** Sat Jul 21, 2012 1:48 am

Whilst DDG uses Bing api I suspect that the news section is not included in that. Next time try the !news bang

Admittedly it only takes you to Google news.

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 618

That's why I don't use DDG, the results are not even close to what I want.

I've found myself alternating between Startpage.com and qrobe.it lately.

carbonize · **Posted:** Sat Jul 21, 2012 11:31 am

Yeah but have you seen the list of bangs, goodies and tech goodies :O

freakazoid · **Joined:** Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:45 pm **Posts:** 618

I don't need to use those goodies enough to warrant using another site.

I also don't understand the usage of bangs. Can't you set those up yourself in your browser's search engine keywords? It also saves a redirect request to DDG first before forwarding you to the site you want to search.

I guess you could use "ddg" as a search engine keyword and then remember to use the DDG bang to save time in setting up your browser search engine keywords. But that's just another syntax I have to remember.

webfork · **Posted:** Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:48 pm

Getting DDG to work with Maxthon:

From the menu, select "Options", "Search Engine" and choose "Add"

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=

Click "OK".

(URL Source: http://duck.co/topic/ddg-in-alternative-web-browsers)

guinness · **Joined:** Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:00 am **Posts:** 3787

Isn't there an option to right click on the search box of DDG and then select 'Create Search'? I don't have Maxthon installed to test this.

webfork · **Posted:** Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:46 pm

guinness wrote:

Isn't there an option to right click on the search box of DDG and then select 'Create Search'? I don't have Maxthon installed to test this.

Yeah, but I wrote it up that way in case someone disabled the search box.

joby_toss · **Posted:** Mon Feb 04, 2013 10:30 pm

Switched from DDG to Bing a while back, but I find it very hard to stay away from Google. And it saddens me...
There are results I need from searches, that only Google gives me. Too bad it gives me a lot of other crap at the same time.

Midas · **Posted:** Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:53 am

joby_toss wrote:

I find it very hard to stay away from Google. And it saddens me... There are results I need from searches, that only Google gives me. Too bad it gives me a lot of other crap at the same time.

Ditto... :cry:

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