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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?
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
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.
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
I stopped using YouTube around the time they last changed the design, now I just download the videos with jD and watch them locally.Quote:
Originally Posted by whatcdfan
That's the version of ixquick they made for the US. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by borewik
I think there are no differences short of the name.
I recommend qrobe.it
have you thought about creating a homepage located on your harddrive? like a intranet homepage?
To use for what?Quote:
Originally Posted by 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
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 :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Frankthetank1
Or a bookmark list. :unsure:Quote:
Originally Posted by Frankthetank1
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.
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:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by anonThat's the version of ixquick they made for the US. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by borewik
I think there are no differences short of the name.
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)
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by zot
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.Quote:
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.
It gets worse.Quote:
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by anon
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by MultiForce
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com.br/...-verbatim.html
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.
It's there as of Firefox 11, and has its own shortcut.Quote:
Originally Posted by zot
I use a GM script like Google Real Link. It convent the search results too plain links instead too all this re-direct shit.
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9310
Tracking removal, infinite scrolling and multi columns :)
Yahoo? lmao
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 ).
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.
I'm starting to like bing a lot, it seems to be informative and more for research.
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.
Bing is nice, i use it alot.
Use it to look up "alot". Go ahead, we've got time...Quote:
Originally Posted by Travo1
I read that much, and teh confusion overwhelmed me. I dont like to think alot.Quote:
There is often confusion over the words alot, a lot and allot.
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(okay, okay, it isnt a word..you win)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google+alternatives
I could not resist that!
:D Welcome.Quote:
Originally Posted by Travo1
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.
I use duckduckgo as well. Solid anonymous search engine and no annoying adsense.
DuckDuckGo. It works very well for at least 95% of my searches.
DuckDuckGo
Wow, this is insaneQuote:
https://search.disconnect.me/
https://www.unbubble.eu/
Some more alternatives.
Try Bing or mozzila. I think they are good search engines...
Why don't you use Bing or duckduckgo?