Google pisses me off. Any other search engine I should try?

[MultiForce]

Unless I want to use " all the way to the moon I have to find another search engine. They just drop the words not giving results and when I write LOGGING I want to find information about LOGGING not LOG etc.
I really miss the old Google that didn't even fix my stupid spelling mistakes.

I find Bing a bit better (never thought I would say that) but is there other sites I should try?

[anon]

ixquick and DuckDuckGo. They may not index billions of pages, but the results are often more accurate and spam-free. There's also the added benefit of no cookies or IP logs.

[MultiForce]

ixquick and DuckDuckGo. They may not index billions of pages, but the results are often more accurate and spam-free. There's also the added benefit of no cookies or IP logs.

Both of them seems interesting so thanks. Will try them out for a few days.

[Cabalo]

I've found myself using more and more Bing lately, especially on my mobile.
Their image search is way better than Google's, for example.

[whatcdfan]

Yap, I agree Google is doing too much with their features which is not working out for every visitor they have. I stopped using it around a month ago when I found a better site though I still use their image search.

Try this: http://go.mail.ru

[anon]

Yap, I agree Google is doing too much with their features which is not working out for every visitor they have.

I stopped using YouTube around the time they last changed the design, now I just download the videos with jD and watch them locally.

[borewik]

try: https://startpage.com/

[anon]

try: https://startpage.com/

That's the version of ixquick they made for the US. :P

I think there are no differences short of the name.

[SBI-boy]

I recommend qrobe.it

[Frankthetank1]

have you thought about creating a homepage located on your harddrive? like a intranet homepage?

[MultiForce]

have you thought about creating a homepage located on your harddrive? like a intranet homepage?

To use for what?

[Frankthetank1]

yeah i guess even if your homepage is located on your hard drive you'd still have to use Google as your search engine on it. I am sure there are ways to stop Google from tracking you and remove ad's though

[MultiForce]

yeah i guess even if your homepage is located on your hard drive you'd still have to use Google as your search engine on it. I am sure there are ways to stop Google from tracking you and remove ad's though

Ah.. I don't really care about that tracking stuff. But they might as well give me good search results if they want to keep an eye on me anyway :P

[anon]

have you thought about creating a homepage located on your harddrive? like a intranet homepage?

Or a bookmark list. :unsure:

About the tracking stuff, Scroogle was simply excellent to remove it, and that's why I used it so often... sadly, they shut down for good some days ago. Now I'm using pagewash.com, which someone recommended me as an alternative, with the option to remove all cookies and ads. You can also host a Glype script in some free hoster, and as long as you don't use it excessively, they won't notice.

[zot]

Like many others here and elsewhere, I hate the direction that Google has gone. I now need to put *extra* quotes around every single search term. I also can't stand the way that Google's results are actually **hidden** redirect-links (going back to Google.com) that allow Google to monitor not just what people search for, but the sites that people actually visit.

I would like to find a browser that automatically strips out Google's fake re-direct links and gives the actual URL in its place. (basically doing the same as I can do manually: deleting the "http://www.google.com/url?q=http" from the left side of the address, as well as everything to the right of "&sa=" :pinch:



try: https://startpage.com/

That's the version of ixquick they made for the US. :P

I think there are no differences short of the name.

I used to think the same thing, until I noticed that the search results were different. Startpage seems to have results more similar to Google than IXquick does.

This may not be the case with everyone. One of the recent trends I hate is that a lot of sites present different pages --and search engines return different results-- to people in different countries (based on IP address) and often it seems the only way to change this "setting" is to use a proxy in another country. (just another one of my many gripes ... in many ways it sometimes seems that things in the internet world were much better 10 years ago)

[anon]

I would like to find a browser that automatically strips out Google's fake re-direct links and gives the actual URL in its place. (basically doing the same as I can do manually: deleting the "http://www.google.com/url?q=http" from the left side of the address, as well as everything to the right of "&sa=" :pinch:

Firefox with the Google Privacy addon. Since this involves a simple string search and replace operation, I'm sure there are user scripts for the task as well. But the addon is better because it works on any site with these Google's (and other engines') redirects, including those which use customized search.


I used to think the same thing, until I noticed that the search results were different. Startpage seems to have results more similar to Google than IXquick does.

That's correct. I was wrong when I wrote that post and thought it was the only difference. ixquick gathers results from many search engines, but Startpage only gives you Google's, just like Scroogle used to. So they're what I'm using now. Good matches with encryption, no cookies and no IP logs is awesome.


This may not be the case with everyone. One of the recent trends I hate is that a lot of sites present different pages --and search engines return different results-- to people in different countries (based on IP address) and often it seems the only way to change this "setting" is to use a proxy in another country.

It gets worse (http://dontbubble.us/).

[mjmacky]

ixquick gathers results from many search engines

Metacrawler has returned? Has anyone ever had to submit a site to a search engine before the Google days? What a pain in the ass that whole process was.

[wiseman002]

Unless I want to use " all the way to the moon I have to find another search engine. They just drop the words not giving results and when I write LOGGING I want to find information about LOGGING not LOG etc.
I really miss the old Google that didn't even fix my stupid spelling mistakes.

I find Bing a bit better (never thought I would say that) but is there other sites I should try?

Try Verbatim feature. "With the Verbatim tool, you can search using the exact keywords you typed," explains Google. Verbatim disables Google's spelling corrections and Google no longer replaces some of your keywords with synonyms (e.g.: television / TV), similar terms (e.g: buy flowers / send flowers), words with the same stem (e.g.: fixing / fix). Verbatim also disables search personalization.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com.br/2011/11/google-verbatim.html

[zot]

Thanks for the suggestions. (I'll check the links after I log out [and can access them])

The issue I have with Firefox's Google-Privacy addon is that it requires Firefox 6 or higher, which I tried and left when I discovered that the "view/page source" command (a must-have feature for me) had been stripped out. Maybe by now it's been put back in - I don't know, as I stopped upgrading after that.

I wondered why google had to change "Verbatim" from opt-out to opt-in. My other complaint about the way Google and Bing are set up is with a backpage of semi-permanent personal settings, rather than being easy to change any setting on the fly, as search engines originally were set up. Also, the heavy dose of JavaScript --which many basic, legacy functions now require-- mandates a fairly powerful computer.

[anon]

The issue I have with Firefox's Google-Privacy addon is that it requires Firefox 6 or higher, which I tried and left when I discovered that the "view/page source" command (a must-have feature for me) had been stripped out. Maybe by now it's been put back in - I don't know, as I stopped upgrading after that.

It's there as of Firefox 11, and has its own shortcut.

[Mozart1933]

I use a GM script like Google Real Link (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/125473). It convent the search results too plain links instead too all this re-direct shit.

[anon]

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9310

Tracking removal, infinite scrolling and multi columns :)

[budbud]

Yahoo? lmao

[ssiewe]

The real problem with using Google is that the company profiles you, and then tailors the search results on the basis of that profile, as well as whatever advertisers have paid them to promote their links. This may very well be what you want, but most likely it isn't.

As a concrete example of where profiling works against you, consider that whenever you go to airline sites looking for tickets, you should use private browsing and disable cookies. If you do not, then the airline website will track whatever destination ticket you are interested in, and on a subsequent return, if you perform that search again, they will show a higher price, because you've already demonstrated interest, and by virtue of the fact that you are performing the search again, the assumption is that you have yet to purchase a ticket, which makes you increasingly "price inelastic", i.e. as your trip date approaches you are increasingly likely to pay a higher price to secure transport. If you can disable whatever the websites are using to track you ( cookies, flash data, etc. ), then you will see the true price that the market is willing to bear (i.e. in general, as perishable goods get closer to their expiry dates, they should get cheaper, not more expensive ).

[tbwerz]

What do you think about Bing vs Google? I don't use it much but I started advertising on it recently and get higher click through rates than on Google, so there is clearly a difference in the type of person who uses Bing vs Google. I think they are older and more affluent from what I understand, not sure why though.

[isolect]

I'm starting to like bing a lot, it seems to be informative and more for research.

[anthoneous]

Bing's image search is the best. Search results formatting takes a while to get used to but it's seems pretty accurate to me.

[Travo1]

Bing is nice, i use it alot.

[megabyteme]

Bing is nice, i use it alot.

Use it to look up "alot". Go ahead, we've got time...

[Travo1]

There is often confusion over the words alot, a lot and allot.
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I read that much, and teh confusion overwhelmed me. I dont like to think alot.


(okay, okay, it isnt a word..you win)

[JP-NZB]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+alternatives

I could not resist that!

[megabyteme]

There is often confusion over the words alot, a lot and allot.
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I read that much, and teh confusion overwhelmed me. I dont like to think alot.


(okay, okay, it isnt a word..you win)

:D Welcome.

[minybily]

If you're curious, MS created a side-by-side web-app:
bingiton.com

I find myself picking Google most of the time, but its striking how similar the sites look.

[zwarlockz]

I use duckduckgo as well. Solid anonymous search engine and no annoying adsense.

[Toadster]

DuckDuckGo. It works very well for at least 95% of my searches.

[NP1975]

DuckDuckGo

[nitilism]

It gets worse (http://dontbubble.us/).

Wow, this is insane

[anon]

https://search.disconnect.me/
https://www.unbubble.eu/

Some more alternatives.

[Chester170]

Try Bing or mozzila. I think they are good search engines...

[AndrewNguyen]

Why don't you use Bing or duckduckgo?

[nuraboo]

What about duck duck go

[Colorgraphicz]

I do not see any issues with youtube, although I do not watch there everyday.

[web5000]

I always go with bing, not the favorite most folks go to like google but still reliable and relevent

[Joolsd]

have you thought about creating a homepage located on your harddrive? like a intranet homepage?
Yes Frankthetanlk1 how do you do that?
Do you have any how to links?

[rotansharma]

Google search results are different on different computers. Google seeks to provide the best results for individual users. This means that they want and expect search results to be different from person to person and that people searching in the same office may see different search results.:yup:

[chrisjordan]

Yahoo! Search
Wolfram Alpha
Ask.com

[digbooker]

Not only

Google search results are different on different computers. Google seeks to provide the best results for individual users. This means that they want and expect search results to be different from person to person and that people searching in the same office may see different search results.:yup:

but also depending on your preferred browser, your IP even language because it provides data-specific search results.


It depends on what you are looking for. Exists a lot of search engines apart from all-known Google, Yahoo!, Ask and Bing.

General:
http://goofram.com/ — Goofram
http://www.wikipedia.org — Wikipedia and sister projects.
http://www.thesearchenginelist.com/ — The Search Engine List. Comprehensive list of Search Engines
https://weboas.is/ — Multipurpose search portal with lot of search engines
http://www.us.wow.com — WOW.com Search Engine. Part of the AOL Search Network — Top Videos, Articles & Trending Topics
https://www.quora.com/ — search engine with the personal touch
http://www.informationvine.com/ — Information Vine
Also:
https://www.zapmeta.ws/
http://www.wholefinds.com/
https://www.downduck.com/
https://duckduckgo.com/ — DuckDuckGo
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/qrobeit-https/ — Qrobe.it = Google + Bing + TAM. Searches Google, Bing and TAM simultaneously. TAM instant answers, infinite scrolling, private, secure, SSL "query /yt", "query /gm", "query /nf" searches YouTube, Google maps, Netflix etc respectively
http://search.creativecommons.org/ — a search aggregator offering access to search results provided by a number of independent organizations
https://lmgtfy.com/ — a search aggregator for Google, Yahoo!, Bing and Ask with shortening link which can be shared
https://www.dogpile.com/ — sends a search to a customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually
https://gibiru.com/ — uncensored anonymous search
http://vivisimo.com/ — automatically organize the pages into categories
https://www.qwant.com/ — another privacy-oriented search engine that is based in France
https://swisscows.com/ — Extremely privacy-focused, parent-control oriented search with helpful suggestion tags. It's built-in filter for pornographic and violent content cannot be overridden
https://www.searchencrypt.com/ — a meta search engine that puts privacy at its forefront combining AES-256 encryption with Secure Sockets Layer encryption. Offers auto-delete feature for browsing history. It gives it better privacy by default than
https://duckduckgo.com/ — uncensored anonymous search DuckDuckGo
http://www.lukol.com/ — uses a proxy server to deliver customized search results from Google using its enhanced custom search yet conserves your privacy by removing traceable entities. Lukol is considered as one of the best private search engines that protects from online fraudsters and keeps the spammers away by safeguarding you from misleading or inappropriate sites. It ensures full anonymity of your searches
https://searx.me/ — doesn’t gather your data and offers unbiased results from several sources. SearX is an open source Google alternative and available to everyone for a source code review as well as contributions on GitHub. You can even customize it as your own meta search engine and host it on your server.
https://yippy.com/ — Formerly known as Clusty, Yippy is a meta search engine that brings out the power of many conventional search engines to give a collective result. It has an additional feature that automatically categorizes query results. If you want to explore the deep web, Yippy is your tool
http://addictomatic.com/ — results from a huge number of channels in that one page (including Google, Bing News, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr)
https://www.bitclave.com/ — a decentralized search engine built with block chain to protect user privacy
http://www.langreiter.com/exec/yahoo-vs-google.html — See visually how results compare on Google versus Yahoo
http://www.bjorgul.com/ — Clean interface lets you query major services from one page
http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html — Lets you easily send your search to one of several search engines. It also has links to search engine help pages
http://www.queryster.com — lets you quickly get results from one of several major search engines, simply by clicking an icon
http://www.yurnet.com — Select your search engines from the many choices offered. The results will all appear within one page, side-by-side. It’s a great way to compare results, though a bit hard to read with more than two search engines selected
https://www.metacrawler.com/ — was originally a meta search engine, as its name suggests. Throughout its lifetime it combined web search results from sources including Google, Yahoo!, Bing (formerly Live Search), Ask.com, About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other search engine programs. MetaCrawler also provided users the option to search for images, video, news, business and personal telephone directories, and for a while even audio
https://www.oscobo.com/ — fully encrypts your search terms so no one can intercept or decrypt your search terms
https://www.discretesearch.com/ — a meta search engine that doesn’t track any identifiable information
anonymity. Available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, Android and iOS
https://metager.org/ — this private search engine integrates with a proxy server that hides your IP address
http://easss.com/search/metasearch.htm — a meta search aggregator
https://www.yase.pw/ — offers a clean and intuitive interface, user-friendly privacy policy, and smart answer system including separate web, images, videos, and news results, and allows users to set filters including Safe Search and file type. Claims that doesn’t “share any personally identifying information publicly or with third-parties, except when required to by law”
http://www.dogpile.com/ — results from various different engines including Google, Yandex and Yahoo, but removes all the ads
http://technorati.com/ — uses tags that authors have included on their websites. These tags categorize search results, with the most recent ones appearing at the top
https://www.gigablast.com/ — a free and open-source web search engine and directory by Matt Wells
https://www.mojeek.com/ — Independent, alternative, and unbiased search results with no user tracking (based in the UK)
https://www.ecosia.org/
http://www.mamma.com/ — one of the oldest meta search engines on the web
http://www.surfwax.com/ — Using the “SiteSnaps” feature, you can preview any page in the results and see where your terms appear in the document. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use
http://web.curryguide.com/ — Meta search engine for the US and several European countries, as well as in various subject areas. Has ability to save your results for easy rerunning at a future point
http://www.excite.com/ — Formerly a crawled-based search engine, Excite was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but maintains its own portal features
http://www.fazzle.com/ — offers a highly flexible and customizable interface to a wide variety of information sources, ranging from general web results to specialized search resources in a number of subject specific categories. Formerly called SearchOnline
http://gimenei.com/ — queries an undisclosed number of search engines and removes duplicates from results. Its most useful feature is an advanced search form that allows you to limit your search to a specific country
http://www.icerocket.com/ — Meta search engine with thumbnail displays. The Quick View display, similar to what WiseNut has long offered, is cool. The service queries WiseNut, Yahoo, Teoma and then somewhat repetitively also includes Yahoo-powered MSN, AltaVista and AllTheWeb. Disclosure of search sources within the actual search results is not done, sadly. Makes it hard to know exactly where the results are coming from
http://www.info.com — provides results from 14 search engines and pay-per-click directories, including Google, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Kanoodle, LookSmart, About, Overture and Open Directory. Also offers shopping, news, eBay, audio and video search, as well as a number of other interesting features
http://www.infogrid.com — provides direct links to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories. Meta search and news searching is also offered
http://www.infonetware.com — primarily designed to demonstrate classification technology from Infogistics. It’s a meta search engine, and it does topical classification of results, like Vivisimo. However, it is unique in that you can select several different topics, then “drill down” to see results from all of them, rather than being restricted to the results from only one topic.
http://www.ithaki.net/ — probably the most “global” of all meta search engines, available in 14 languages and offering more than 35 different categories for limiting your search. In addition, Ithaki offers country specific search, querying only local search engines rather than the regional versions of the major search engines
http://www.izito.com — a meta search engine with a clever feature. Click on any listing you are interested in using the P icon next to the listing title. That “parks” the listing into your to do list. Click on the P tab, and you can see all the pages you’ve culled. It’s an easy, handy way to make a custom result set. Also interesting is the ability to show listings in up to three columns across the screen, letting you see more results at once
http://www.jux2.com/ — allows you to search two major search engines at the same time, then see results that are found on both first, followed by results found on only one of them next. The small overlap visual tool displayed is great. I used to make examples like this to explain search engine overlap and why one search engine may not cover everything. Now I have an easy dynamic way to do this. The stats link at the bottom of the home page provides more visuals
http://www.meceoo.com/ — Meta search with the ability to create an “exclusion list” to block pages from particular web sites being included. For example, want to meta search only against .org sites? French version also offered
http://www.metaeureka.com — Search against several major search engines and paid listings services. Offers a nice option to see Alexa info about pages that are listed.
http://www.profusion.com — Brings back listings from several major search engines as well as “Invisible Web” resources
http://www.queryserver.com/web.htm — Search against major web-wide search engines, as well as major news, health, money and government search services
http://turbo10.com — a meta search engine accesses both traditional web search engines and some invisible web databases, with a very speedy interface
http://www.search.com — a meta search engine operated by CNET. It offers both web-wide search and a wide variety of specialty search options. Search.com absorbed SavvySearch in October 1999. SavvySearch was one of the older meta search services, around since May 1995 and formerly based at Colorado State University.
http://www.ujiko.com/ — From the makers of visual meta search tool KartOO, this is a really slick service to try. Do your search, then scroll through the list. See something bad? Click the trash can icon, and the listing goes away. It’s a great way to prune your results — even better would have been if everything trashed brought up something new to look at. That would be a help for those who simply refuse to go past the first page of results. See something you like? Click the heart icon and you can rate the listing. This information is memorized, to help ensure the sites you choose to better in future searches. Unlike KartOO, Ujiko uses results from only one search engine: Yahoo. It also offers many more features I haven’t even yet explored
http://www.webcrawler.com — Formerly a crawled-based search engine owned by Excite, Webcrawler was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but offers a fast and clean, ad-free interface
https://www.hotbot.com/ — a privately owned web search engine and a privacy blog
https://www.exalead.com/search/ — public Web search engine, which was designed to apply semantic processing and faceted navigation to Web data volumes and usage. Exalead also operates an online laboratory which uses the Web as a medium for developing applied technologies for business
https://www.lycos.com/ — a web search engine and web portal established in 1994, spun out of Carnegie Mellon University
https://blekko.com/
http://www.chacha.com/ — a lot more like Ask where users can ask any particular question
https://vimeo.com/
https://disconnect.me/ — more of a browser extension which you need to add. Let’s you use your favorite search engine with
https://www.yandex.com/ — a Russian-founded search engine*
https://www.baidu.com/ — aka “China’s Google”, Baidu is the largest search engine in China that facilitates web searching in Chinese language as well as in Japanese*
https://archive.org/ — taking snapshots of the whole World Wide Web for years now. This allows you to travel back in time

* Might be dangerous because of not only tracking but also (that is much the worse!) attempt to set up spy soft on your computer

Forums and boards Search:
http://boardreader.com/ — a simple way to search forums and boards
http://buzzsumo.com/ — identifies the most shared links on social networks
http://www.crunchbase.com/ — offers information about people and startups
http://socialmention.com/ — a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news so on
http://topsy.com/ — Social media analytics
http://www.slideshare.net/ — a really handy place to source information from presentations, slide decks, webinars and whatever else
https://www.listennotes.com/ — “the best podcast search engine”


Specialty Choices:
The metacrawlers listed below let you meta search in specific subject areas.
http://www.familyfriendlysearch.com — Meta search service that queries major kid-friendly search engines
http://www.gofish.com — Meta search service for licensed and commercially available digital media downloads including music, movies, music videos, ringtones, mobile games and PC games, searching over 12 million media files.
http://www.searchy.co.uk — Searches 15 U.K. engines. The advanced search form allows you to change the order that results are presented, either by speed or manually to suit your own preferences.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/internet_utilities/watson.html — Watson for the Macintosh is a “Swiss Army Knife” with nineteen (!) interfaces to web content and services — an improvement on Sherlock, with nearly twice as many tools, including Google Searching


Image Search Engines:
http://fr.search.yahoo.com/search/fr/img/index.html — The Yahoo images search engine
https://www.flickr.com/ — Flickr
http://picgine.com/ — Picgine — Finding photos
http://www.kartoo.com/ — visual search engine
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/search-by-image
https://www.istockphoto.com/ — Search by image
https://www.shutterstock.com/ — Search by image
http://www.wesee.com/
http://www.tineye.com/ — Photo Search Engine
http://www.imagezfinder.com/
https://giphy.com/ — search engine for gifs


Book Search Engines:
http://books.google.com/ — Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/books?as_isbn=5762503801 — Google Book Search, including text search
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=5762503801&tiled=1&scoring=p — Find this book (5762503801) in Internet stores via Google Product Search — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Product_Search
http://webcatplus.nii.ac.jp/ — Webcat Plus: Search for books, magazines, etc
http://libgen.io/ — Library Genesis2M
http://libgen.pw/ — the same


Tor Search Engines:
https://startpage.com/ — The world's most private search engine. Gathers results from many search engines
https://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/ — DuckDuckGo Onion
http://gjobqjj7wyczbqie.onion/ — Candle search
http://msydqstlz2kzerdg.onion/ — Ahmia.fi — Clearnet search engine for Tor Hidden Services.
www.onionsearchengine.com/ [http://5u56fjmxu63xcmbk.onion/] — Onion search engine for deep web links
info.dogpile.com/ — Internet Darknet — Search on Dogpile.com
http://scihub22266oqcxt.onion/ — SCI-HUB — seems to be bloked
http://mx7rwxcountermqh.onion/ — Here is Bibliomaniac's annotated list of links to onions that serve books
http://rrcc5uuudhh4oz3c.onion/?cmd=topic&id=15006 — List of ebook sites
http://rrcc5uuudhh4oz3c.onion/?cmd=topic&id=10848 — Ebook links etc.
http://hackcanl2o4lvmnv.onion/blackcrawl/magick.html — Magick Files Index
http://xsold3pvbxt4xblv.onion/ — LiberTORian 2.0 is a retro eZine covering issues regarding individual liberty


Files Search Engines:
https://pastebin.com/
http://www.generalfil.es/ — General Files for everyone
https://hunter.io/ — Everything you need to know to find email addresses in seconds like no one else
http://www.searchftps.org/ — Napalm FTP Indexer
https://www.filesloop.com/ — file search aggregator for file hosts and torrents
http://informatieplatform.nl/filesharing/beste-torrentsites/
https://idope.se/link.html
http://www.aiosearch.com/
https://nanrenbt.cc/ — Torrent Search
https://torrents.me/search/
https://torrentz2.eu — replace https://torrentz.com/. It works!
http://metasearch.torrentproject.com/ — Torrent Meta Searchhttp://torrentproject.com
https://snowfl.com/ — a torrent aggregator, it searches various public torrent indexes in real time
http://snowflcblpoz4feg.onion/
https://zbigz.com/ — The easiest and secure way to download torrents
http://sweetorrents.com/ — SweeTorrents — search engine for searches and download torrents
http://www.ju8.me/ — a DHT resource search engine based on the Torrents protocol
http://www.btsay.org/ — Magnet Links & Torrents
http://www.tangent60.com/ — Take a look on torrents under the different angle!
http://www.searchonzippy.com/ — Search on Zippyshare.com — username and password are being requested
https://zippysharesearch.info/ — Search on Zippyshare.com
http://www.filewatcher.com/
https://nzbindex.nl
https://www.usenet-crawler.com/



See also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080712231826/http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156581
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Internet_search_engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_search_engines
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_privacy

[anon]

Scroogle is sorely missed :( Right now I'm using, in order of preference...

https://duckduckgo.com/
https://eu.startpage.com/
https://search.privacytools.io/ (a Searx instance)
https://www.qwant.com/

I frequented Qrobe in the past, but stopped because they added Google redirects to their results and were misleading with their privacy policy (they don't track, but do keep logs).

Yandex may be owned by Putin Russians, but their reverse image search is amazingly good and has no captchas :ninja:

[linda]

https://www.qwant.com

[vidjibear]

Try Bing, be part of a much smaller database.

[Tester222]

Duck duck go is where its at.

[dapez]

ecosia.org

This site plants a tree for each search !

[raytasy]

Duck duck go. Also stop using chrome and switch to brave browser (built from chrome without the tracking and invasion of privacy)

[anon]

Duck duck go. Also stop using chrome and switch to brave browser ungoogled-chromium (https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium) (built from chrome without the tracking and invasion of privacy)

Fixed ;)

[niplips]

I absolutely agree. Bing surpassed Google quite a while ago, in my opinion.

[ghostman]

I use DuckDuck Go and (sadly) Bing...

[Emma0-Clark]

many Search Engine in The World You Try Other Search Engine Like Yahoo, Bing, Yandex Etc, bing in the Second Big Search Engine.

[shivani99]

You can try Duck Duck Go. It is one of the best search engines right now. If you want you can also go for yahoo

[anon]

Right now I'm using, in order of preference...

https://duckduckgo.com/
https://eu.startpage.com/
https://search.privacytools.io/ (a Searx instance)
https://www.qwant.com/

Qwant has moved up to second place since this post. Good results that complement DDG's very well.

[VinsNed]

Duck duck go. Also stop using chrome and switch to brave browser ungoogled-chromium (https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium) (built from chrome without the tracking and invasion of privacy)

Fixed ;)

thx for the tip shall try this one out.

[xdaehak]

Hmmm, never heard of duck duck but i'll give it a try

[Ihino]

I don't think DDG is a real alternative to Google; search results tend to be very bad, especially when searching for local stuff.

There's also Startpage, which claims to do the same thing as DDG but only uses the Google index.

[anon]

DuckDuckGo gives different output on the regular version of the site vs. the HTML-only one (https://duckduckgo.com/lite), irrespective of your filtering settings. Weird, I know, but you may want to keep it in mind.

As for the quality of search results, unfortunately none of the "alternative" search engines are completely on par with Google. For 95% of searches the difference won't be noticeable and you'll still find what you want, but for the remaining 5%, you'll likely want to use the big G through Tor Browser and hope you don't get too many captchas. Let's remember that before they turned into an omnipresent megacorporation, they started as a really damn good search engine... and they still are.

[usmanshahidlatif]

I know what the people at Google are thinking, "Well, we'll just need to make our search engine guess better at what people want then marked change and its reallly pissing me off - but no one else is talking about this ... Interestingly - apart from totaljobs

[juansan]

I think that DuckDuckGo is other search engine, but is not a real alternative to Google. In the case that DuckDuckGo grows, Google only have to buy it and integrate your results into it.

[anon]

In the case that DuckDuckGo grows, Google only have to buy it and integrate your results into it.

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

They have grown a lot, but still nowhere close to being a threat.

[Alboino23]

yeah i totally agree, i think duckduckgo has a good potential and in some cases can be really useful but right now it's not even close i suppose

[mehak_sharma]

ya DuckDuckGo is nice, I too have been using it recently

[Zupper]

Depending on which search engine you use you do get different results. If you don't want the web sites you visit linked to your google profile then skip Google and use DuckDuckGo which does not track you. Bing is pretty good and is on the same level as Google. DuckDuckGo is not quite as good but is OK most of the time.

[anon]

Right now I'm using, in order of preference...

https://duckduckgo.com/
https://eu.startpage.com/
https://search.privacytools.io/ (a Searx instance)
https://www.qwant.com/

Dropped PrivacyTools (not due to quality, I just forgot they existed since the others were good enough), added Brave Search.

[heyberry]

Yandex is a good search engine

[anon]

Yandex is a good search engine

The reverse image search is all I use from them, but it's amazingly good, better than Google and TinEye. A little hint: see https://yandex.com/tune/adv for extra settings.

[korogipys]

Fuck Yandex, it's Russian search engine and Russia is a terrorist country. Do you want to fund terrorism?:rolleyes:

[technobase]

According to me, Google is the best search engine, but if you are looking for another search engine, then I can suggest that Bing and DuckDuckGo are the best search engines.

[A]

Right now I'm using, in order of preference...

https://duckduckgo.com/
https://eu.startpage.com/
https://search.privacytools.io/ (a Searx instance)
https://www.qwant.com/

Dropped PrivacyTools (not due to quality, I just forgot they existed since the others were good enough), added Brave Search.

There are a bunch of general and niche search engines coming up. You might find some useful here: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html

[anon]

Fuck Yandex, it's Russian search engine and Russia is a terrorist country. Do you want to fund terrorism?:rolleyes:

Nooo, I just wanted high quality version of the hentai pictures SauceNAO can't find! :cry:


There are a bunch of general and niche search engines coming up. You might find some useful here: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html

Nice find, long article with lots of things to test. Will have a look, thanks :)

[yevgeny]

scroogle and whoogle

yandex disk is the shizzizle

[anon]

scroogle and whoogle

If only the latter had shown up around the time the former shut down. By now, I'm so used to the alternatives I keep forgetting it exists. Invidious is good, though :smilie4:


yandex disk is the shizzizle

As a downloader, I have no complaints about its speeds, and little concern about Putin knowing what HCGs I'm interested on.

[mawmee]

Don't know if anyone's really hitting Yandex considering it all leads back to Mother Russia? Duck duck go?

[anon]

Since their privacy policy is ambiguous about basic things like what they log from searches and for how long, I just assume everything is sent straight to Putin's desk and only use it for porn. It is true.

[Something Else]

Why are you so obsessed with Putin. Seems kind of creepy.

All search engines collect information, so the ones that give you the results you want are probably best.

[IdolEyes787]

Maybe he's not obsessed with Putin. Maybe he's obsessed with Russian midgets who murder with impunity and Putin just happens to fall into that category. Maybe we look but we don't see. Maybe.

[Something Else]

Are you referring to the guy in Austin Powers. He didn't mention him. :unsure:

[Eric-Morgan]

I Completely understand your dissatisfaction with Google's search results. If you're looking for alternative search engines that might suited to your needs better, here are a few options to explore.
1- ( Bing )
2- ( Yahoo )
3- ( qwant )
4- ( duckduckgo )

[edgeguru]

Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, Ecosia, Startpage, and Qwant are search engines that offer unique features and privacy. Yandex, a Russian search engine, offers search results in multiple languages, while Startpage retrieves Google search results without tracking users.

[mrbill14]

ixquick and DuckDuckGo. They may not index billions of pages, but the results are often more accurate and spam-free. There's also the added benefit of no cookies or IP logs.

Another vote for DuckDuckGo.

[solaranlage]

You can ask Chat Gpt. But I don't think there is something better.

[anon]

1- ( Bing )
2- ( Yahoo )

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[Techup_Sol]

You are right about google, but for a broader research you need google. but if you want some specific(sensitive) information then DuckDuckGo is far better than google.

[anon]

if you want some specific(sensitive) information then DuckDuckGo is far better than google.

https://torrentfreak.com/need-a-pirate-bay-proxy-duckduckgo-best-option-says-google-200829/ :cool: