[JIM O]

I generally am correct about most things so just call me.

[Nevadan]

good thread. I have been wanting this info as well.

[omega4179]

bing.com

[matthew fuller]

First- check out this page on Refdesk-
http://www.refdesk.com/newsrch.html
I just found the list of tutorials. There is also a listing of search engines there. I prefer Ixquick Metasearch.
You might want to check out this description of a listing of the top 100 alternative websites.
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_100_alternative_search_engines.php

[basil]

I use GoodSearch.com

It has never failed me.

The great thing about it is that when you first log on to do a search, they ask you for your favorite charity. They will donate a few pennies to this charity every time you use them.

Of course, my “charity” is Second Amendment Sisters. Our organization has gotten one check from them so far—but it was for more than $100.

[upsdriver]

https://www.startpage.com/eng/

Check out this one.

[NativeNewYorker]

I LOVE yubnub.org...and I just discovered https://ixquick.com/ .

[goodnesswins]

https://www.ixquick.com/

Doesn’t track you....ssl protection...

[narses]

There are already a number of good suggestions on this thread and I thought the PING list would both be able to use what is already here and contribute. Enjoy!

[BOOHA]

www.dogpile.com

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

IXQ. No IP tracking, no cookies. Click on the link.

https://www.ixquick.com/

[4yearlurker]

I switched to Bing months ago and never went back to Google.

[SamAdams76]

I've given up on search because I've pretty much found everything I've been looking for on the Internet and I only regularly visit a handful of sites on the Internet that are bookmarked - the Free Republic being one of them. I think the last time I had to go out and hunt for something was when I needed a USB device to convert my audio tapes to MP3. I found it at Amazon and ordered it. That was the holy grail that allowed me to convert the rest of my music collection to MP3.

Nowadays, I do a lot of book reading. I was just in the library today and got a book on Eisenhower and another book on railroads during the 1800s. I'm thinking about getting a Kindle and just dumping a bunch of books onto it so I can go ahead and get them read.

[cynwoody]

But lately the SEO games and massive quantity of stuff online has made simple queries painful.

Good luck with that.

All the search engines seem to use variations of Google's link-ranking algorithm (if they don't simply steal their results from Google) and, thus, are vulnerable to SEO games. E.g., I just looked up santorum on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, and DogPile, and they all exhibit the poor senator's long-standing google problem. Actually, it's so bad now, that if you simply google for google problem, Santorum is all over the SERP.

BTW, the Wikipedia has a lengthy search engine list.

[Faith]

BING!

[Squantos]

http://lifehacker.com/5875927/what-are-your-favorite-alternatives-to-google-services

[redhead]

Bing!

[editor-surveyor]

Ixquick gives total privacy.

[the invisib1e hand]

Google's become it's antithesis. It used to be clean, simple, reliable, uncluttered. Now you can't move the mouse without something jumping up to distract you. Drives people up a wall.

Thank God for creative destruction.

[Weirdad]

DuckDuckGo is GREAT. Private, does not “bubble” you, has secure (https) features (so your ISP does not know what you search for either).

https://duckduckgo.com/?kh=1&k1=-1

Many great features. I love it. The results are also very good. I rarely have to resort to other engines to find what I want.

From their privacy page:

“DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information. That is our privacy policy in a nutshell. The rest of this page tries to explain why you should care.

* Why You Should Care - Search Leakage
* Why You Should Care - Search History
* Information Not Collected
* Information Collected
* Information Shared