Alternatives to Google search

[m^(2)]

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]

Google Shopping Censors All Gun, Ammo & Accessories Results

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]

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

[m^(2)]

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]

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)]

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

[carbonize]

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]

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]

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

[freakazoid]

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]

Getting DDG to work with Maxthon:

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

• Name: DuckDuckGo
  Search URL: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
  Alias "DDG" (click on the "?" next to Alias for an explanation)

Click "OK".

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

[guinness]

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]

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]

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]

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...