Dislike Google? How about Scroogle?

[Stinky The Clown]

I used this a while back and then, for no particular reason, drifted back to the Goog. Basically, it uses the Google, but anonymizes your IP address, saving you from being tracked.

http://www.squidoo.com/scroogle

[LVZ]

1. Duckduckgo has been doing this for a long time

http://duckduckgo.com/lite/

and for a lot more search and feature options:

http://www.gooplusplus.com

http://m.gooplusplus.com (mobile sites for both PC and mobile devices)

[Stinky The Clown]

2. Thanks for that

[LVZ]

11. FYI: scroogle is not part of Gooplusplus multi-search but "DuckDuckGo and "Google Minus Google" are

http://www.gooplusplus.com/?preset=108

[woo me with science]

3. I use it for most searches, but there are a couple of drawbacks.

I often need image searches, or one of the other specialized searches that only come with other search engines.

It doesn't integrate with my "safe" web surfing notifier, so I don't get the little icons next to search results to warn when a site might be unsafe. If I'm doing a fairly blind search that risks bringing up a lot of unfamiliar and potentially risky websites, I don't like to use it. Maybe there is a way to integrate the safe search program into Scroogle, but I haven't explored that.

[Historic NY]

4. Thanks put it back up into my toolbar.

[silverweb]

5. Or make your searches *really* accomplish something!

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Put your searches to work to benefit your choice of charity by using http://www.goodsearch.com/.

I have too many favorites, so I rotate them and change my designated charity every time I hit $20. It feels really good.

[BadgerKid]

6. Ixquick may be another option.

https://ixquick.com/

[Matariki]

9. That's a good one

and http://startpage.com - same company, slightly different features.

[freshwest]

7. Been using it for years. Fast and efficient. I never use google.

Google periodically denies them service by changing things or trying to identify their users as bots. Which they are not, but it seems a suppression of those who don't want to have their info with google forever for google to make money off of them.

Whenever google is screwing with scroogle I go to AltaVista. BTW, the name 'scroogle' is supposed to stand for 'screw google.'

They have articles about what google has been doing since I guess the 'do no harm' motto was dumped. Not pretty.

This scroogle page is my home page:

http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm

I suggest people give it a try if nothing else to escape the ads and go faster.

[Matariki]

8. I use startpage.com

or its european sister site www.ixquick.com

Data is coming from Google, the searches are encrypted and no personal data is saved.

https://startpage.com/eng/aboutstartpage/

[canetoad]

10. It's a terrific search engine

If it had maps and images I'd use it exclusively.

[madokie]

12. Scroogle is my home page now

And as a test I looked for something that I wasn't able to find on google before and there it was on top of the page.