The Other Search Engines - Comments Page 1

How could you leave out DuckDuckGo from your search engine article?

EDITOR'S NOTE: I didn't... How could you miss it? I even included the logo in my graphic.

Maybe I'm too tired to see it, but I can't find FIREFOX listed no matter how many times I squint at your article. Why is that?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Firefox is a web browser, not a search engine. To clarify, a web browser is a tool by which one may access a search engine or other website.

I only use DDG, yet if I want to search via Google, I can use what DDG calls a "Bang" and enter this search term format for ice cream, for example.
ice cream !G
Results will come through Google but anonymous as all DDG results. The best of both worlds.

Use a search engine from a country that is the master of industrial espionage? Not a chance of using Baidu.

From the VERY limited experience I have with QUORA, I have a couple of observations:

1) I like it, but like Wikipedia, it will take a while for it to gather it's legs and give good answers to questions. In the mean time, be careful of blindly accepting answers. Everyone has an opionion, but they aren't all guaranteed to be right!

2) Write your question. Then ask yourself if someone who doesn't know you and therefore can't read anything into your question will understand what you are REALLY asking. I.e., is your question short and precise?

I started using DuckDuckGo several months ago & haven't looked back. It does what I would call a more nuanced search. e.g. If I do a Google search, I get a bunch of totally unrelated garbage. DudkDuckGo is more to the point. It also seems as if Google and Yahoo plant a lot of garbage onto my computer.

Academia despised Wikipedia, but I'll bet a dollar to a dime that EVERY PhD that ever published a page has researched with Wikipedia (Since there was a Wikipedia, that is.) Real research can be done through Wikipedia, every worthwhile Wikipedia article is documented with tons of resources. Then, of course, we have politicians who read Wikipedia articles from their teleprompters and present them as original speeches. I love Wikipedia to the degree of supporting it monetarily and carefully editing any errors I discover as I am using it. It is already the best in the world, I want it to be PERFECT.

I have used Google probably 70% as my go to search. I've tried Bing with good results. Recently I've been using DuckDuckGo and I like what I see. Since I've read this article, I'm going to give Baidu a shot. Thanks for the info.

Hi Bob: I use DuckDuckGo with excellent results! I understand that you "have no qualms with the privacy policies of Google or Microsoft, and believe that much of the talk on this subject is hype or hyperbole".

Personally, I do not trust Google or Microsoft simply because they are too big and powerful, and I believe that "power corrupts" - so I would rather be "safe than sorry" when it comes to my privacy!

I remember Netscape getting hosed by Microsoft internet explorer. As a common user of the internet at that time, it didn't bother me, but looking back, it was sad. Yahoo is passe. Ask.com tries to hard. It's near malware when downloading a lot of programs. I'd like to use Ask occasionally, but when you load it, it's like a virus. You didn't mention Opera.

With size comes arrogance, superpower USA is a prime example. From all that I have read on the web about Google, I feel that its "Evil Empire, we know who you are" ranking should be noticed. Since switching to DDG, I have found that I am noticably less bothered by unwanted (and sometimes malicious) spam. Maybe it's something I "notice" that really doesn't exist, but I feel better about it.

DanD

Thanks for this update, Bob. Years ago on the Tour Bus Dogpile was recommended for meta searches. I have been a faithful user except when I go straight to Wikipedia. I find that Dogpile often saves me time trying different search engines with the same query. And of course it does search Google too!

Thank you Bob for all your information,, One you might like to research. is RMLSWEB.com RMLS.com
They try to have it both ways, The charge Realtors to post and search listings, and then they sell it to large web sites like RMAX and Coldwell Banker and many more. You can go to several sites For sale by owner, and Zip Realty XRealty and get some of the listing but not all. Plus RMLS is suppose to be an association for realtors, but they take there data and resell it. Worth looking into Bob

I began to use Startpage because I just got sick of Google giving me a list of suggestions that were unrelated to the intent of my search phrases and made it more difficult to use search terms other than the ones suggested by Google. I wish that I could use a portal like Startpage to access search-engines other than Google. I don't want my search-engine making suggestions to me when I am looking for specific topics.

Here's the one I like - 100 Search Engines. What more could you want: http://www.100searchengines.com/
I use it alternately with google.

I use IxQuick...It has a little more user privacy in mind...Well a lot more than gurgle...i'm not a fan of their world domination plan

Disturbing to me that Wikipedia is most-used reference resource online. I have found it to be inaccurate just enough times that it does not deserve to be trusted. Yes it is often accurate, but no way to know if/when it is. Then from day-to-day the content on a subject may change -- seemingly arbitrarily. Never acceptable for research or scholarly work.

Two very good academic search engines:

OAIster: http://www.oclc.org/oaister.en.html
BASE: http://www.base-search.net

I use the AVG search which is powered by Google because I like the feature of stating if a site is considered "Risky / Dangerous ".

LMAO [ I like using "Let Me Google That For You (http://lmgtfy.com/)" when I have to search something on behalf of someone else and then return back the lmgtfy link to them!