Best Search Engine Outside of Google?

[Loyal]

I've about had enough of Google and I want the best option out there that doesn't restrict free speech and protects individual's information/searches. I'm trying DuckDuckGo right now and it seems to be pretty good. Maybe we do a poll and explain why you like it so much?

 

[12intheBox]

wait - what is google doing that is making you want to boycott them?

I've heard of Yahoo and Bing - but Yahoo is a clearing house more than a search engine and bing is just .... well, its bing.

 

[Loyal]

wait - what is google doing that is making you want to boycott them?

I've heard of Yahoo and Bing - but Yahoo is a clearing house more than a search engine and bing is just .... well, its bing.

Welp, I don't want to get into a political discussion about this, because politics are involved. But aside from that:
* Google is a monster in regard to it's power and influence. If it's not a monopoly, it's about as close as it gets to one.
* When it's able to demonetize a politically conservative online publication due to its comments section, that bothers me. Since Google is considered to be in the private marketplace (currently), they can do this constitutionally, but that doesn't mean I have to support them anymore, and I won't.
* I am re-examining the services and organizations that I deal with for other options, if any. I will post another poll, flv doesn't post it before I do, about politically neutral social media platforms besides twitter and facebook, which are not communist/socialist related.

 

[12intheBox]

I get that. I think I'm just generally too selfish for boycotts. I support LGBTQ rights, but I still dominate Chick Fil A sammiches every chance I get.

 

[Loyal]

I get that. I think I'm just generally too selfish for boycotts. I support LGBTQ rights, but I still dominate Chick Fil A sammiches every chance I get.

I don't really call for a boycott, because they normally don't work. I'm just looking for other options besides the monopoly...

 

[Dodgersrf]

I don't really call for a boycott, because they normally don't work. I'm just looking for other options besides the monopoly...

Maybe you can be the only human left that still uses the phone book?

 

[Loyal]

Maybe you can be the only human left that still uses the phone book?

My local phone book doesn't really cover business that manufacture blow up dolls available in Copenhagen....

 

[Mackeyser]

Yeah, @LoyalRam I'm about as lefty as this forum gets and the Google actions about a comment section, not the content of a conservative website really pissed me off, too.

These tech moguls can't sell themselves as purveyor of the public good and capable of holding the public trust and then go all "this is my ball and I'll do what I want with it" the moment they choose.

And there needs to be uniformity.

If they want to create the digital public space (Google, Facebook) or a the digital marketplace (Amazon), then they need to be treated as such including the rights and responsibilities of maintaining a public space.

Also, honestly, I'm sick to death of being the "product". None of what they're offering is free, they're selling US to THEM (the THEM can be any number of customers... the gov't, corporations, etc)

The problem is that economic scales have allowed them to amass so much wealth that alternatives are squashed before they can pose a threat.

I dunno what the answer is, but yeah.

Also, Brave is a pretty good browser alternative as well. For search, I use DuckDuckGo on Brave and Ecosia on Safari (gotta plant those TREES, yo!)

 

[dieterbrock]

Google just pisses me off. Its incredibly frustrating now, as the first 5-10 suggestions are merely advertisers selling a product in your search request. Some times you just want an answer to something and not every search means Im buying...