Seven Search Alternatives to Google - Comments Page 1

I wondered about lexisnexis - doesn't that cost a lot of money? I was wondering about how to research any derogatories about myself . . .

If it costs money, I don't see how it is comparable to Google.

Dogpile is our favorite.If anybody ask a question around my wife she will say go ask Dogpile.

Another factor to consider is privacy. Which search engines don't store your searches and track what you are doing?
e.g. Scroogle Ixquick

(Duckduckgo doesn't track either)

Like Yippy (formerly known as Clusty) which clusters search results, so instead of Google's list of ten thousand, you get told there are ten thousand in five clusters. E.g., search on Civil War, get clusters of American, British, ..... which is helpful if you're looking for Michael Brown and want a dentist, not a rap star .....

I use Scroogle Scraper instead of Google... same search results as Google but without the ads!!

Although it uses Google as the search engine, https://www.StartingPage.com does not record your IP address and does not share your personal information with a third party, so it offers some degree of privacy. If you click "Proxy" to be taken to another site, StartingPage hides your IP address, displaying its own IP address to the new site, and that also means no cookies passed onto your computer. (The downsides to using the proxy option is slower page loads, you cannot fill out text forms, and since javascript is removed, some features may not work.)

I have an addition to your list:
AllMyFaves
Here is mine:
http://www.allmyfaves.com/bob3160/

I'd like to thank Joel for the heads up on Dogpile! It found a specific printer that I wanted, faster than Google AND at a cheaper price than Google could find! So I will definitely use Dogpile from now on instead of Google! Cheers Joel.

When I click on the 411.com my malwarebytes tells me stopped a potential ?? from going out.
hmmm?

Tried it a few times...at least my bytes are working., but I dont know if it just thinks its a potenitial...or could it actually be?

For anything medical, start with WebMD.com. For medical personnel, it is best to go to Medscape.com, which is apart of WebMD. The registration is FREE and you will find oodles of information, with lots of medical terminology, so that is why it is advisable, to have a good medical background, when using Medscape.com. Now, Medscape is also for patients, but, in all honesty, they will be looking up, a lot of words, on the Online Dictionaries, especially the Medical ones.

Medscape has been around since, 1994 and is a well respected website. I have used it for years and have a daily subscription to it's newsletter. Basically, Medscape covers all of medicine, from around the world, which is really nice, when you want a lot of information, about a medical problem or issue.

As for Google and many of the other Search Engines, I use Ad-Block Plus, to eliminate the ads. I know, that this Add-On is for Firefox, but, it works! Plus, I have other Add-Ons, that help protect my privacy. Tracking Add-Ons can really hinder, your Internet experience. Many times, they will prevent you, from going even to a well known safe, website. So, I take those Add-Ons, with a grain of salt.The BIGGEST tracker, of them all, is Facebook!!! Plus, Facebook is now, letting everyone know about everyone else's, whereabouts! Not good. }:O(

@Billk:Use 'startpage', totally anonymous!

I know Dogpile isn't given a lot of respect, but I just finished trying out a couple of other search engines for a month each, and Dogpile gave me better results for what I was looking for. I compared it with Izquick and DuckDuckGo, and somewhat with Google as well, I guess, and while all were good, Dogpile never let me down. All the others missed stuff at some point.

I have been very pleased with search results from Ixquick.

https://ixquick.com/

Hi Bob,
Nice update... What about Askjeeves,Hotbot and Altavista the ones we grew up with?

@JP: I LOVE www.startpage.com for the same reasons you just described! I want NO ONE tracking my online habits.

Please indicate which search engines permit Boolean expressions. I miss benig able to search for "Wanted item" - "not wanted".

I also use Dogpile.com. I was using it before Google came along and still prefer it.
It checks out all the other search engines too.

When is your connection speed negated by your processor speed. Lets say my computer processor runs at 500 MHZ, and my connection is rated at 5MB.Lets also say I have another computer running at 750 MHZ and 5MB.Will the computer running at 750 MHZ perform better while on the internet. You would have to think at some point a faster machine is going to lose the edge, unless you get an extremely fast internet provider

EDITOR'S NOTE: I think you're mixing apples and oranges, or rather megaHERTZ and megaBYTES. Think of it this way, your internet connection is like a water pipe. When the stream hits your router, it gets divided into substreams, one for each device (computer) on the network. I can't see why the faster machine would have any disadvantage.

I always used dogpile it searches all of the other search engines.

Bob: I used to use Google, but all the rumors about Google storing information about its users worried me. I now use IXQUICK (IXQUICK.com) for searching. It claims to never save your information, and I also have installed it as my default browser search tool. Mike