[Cicero]

My default search engine is Bing. When I started using Google it was one of the cleanest search engines around. Several of its predecessors planted advertising spyware in your computer. But that has gradually changed over the years, as they have grown more and more intrusive.

I occasionally use google as a backup if Bing doesn’t find what I’m looking for.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’ve been using Bing too. I can’t stand Google.

[Larry Lucido]

Just google up “search engines.”

[GregoTX]

The search engine called "Good Search" allows you to select a cause you believe in, and they send money to that cause based on your searches and purchases.

That may be something you like.

Example:

(http://www.goodsearch.com/nonprofit/nra-foundation-friends-of-nra-national-rifle-association-foundation.aspx)

We give money to NRA Foundation - Friends of NRA - National Rifle Association Foundation (Fairfax VA) every time you search the web and shop online.

[ElayneJ]

book mark

[PastorBooks]

Here are some alternatives for SSL-encrypted search:

SSL-encrypted:
https://startpage.com
https://ixquick.com
https://duckduckgo.com
https://ssl.scroogle.org/

I’m not sure if these have SSL versions:
http://webcrawler.com
http://dogpile.com

[sportutegrl]

I’m still using altavista and lycos. What is this google you speak of?

[CitizenM]

Great info here. Thanks everyone.

[lbryce]

Google offers alternative search options that it prefers not to promote all that much that I’ve found very effective in uncovering search results that you won’t find in the standard google search submission.

After submitting your search query click down on the left side of the google drop down menu as it appears in the left image click on ‘More Search tools’ that will produce the optional search options as provided for on the right image. Choosing the option termed ”Verbatim” offers an alternative search approach you might find more effective, less frustrating.

I’m not saying this is going to resolve any issues you might have with google but it does offer alternative options that may work better than any of the other suggestions offered.

[familyop]

https://ssl.scroogle.org/

https://www.ixquick.com/

[Rashputin]

IMHO, Bing & Dogpile, or , Dogpile & Bing.

Dogpile started out as an aggregation of the results from other search engines and may still work that way. It often provides results early in the listing of results that don't show up until far down the list in either Google or Bing because it seems to be very good at removing redundent results.

Bing is FAR superior to Google and seems to have some degree of protection against manipulation although from time to time you will run into something that has obviously been manipulated to force an agenda driven page to appear early in the search listings. Even then, Bing seems pretty good about finding and getting rid of those sorts of things. I have heard that some people have a problem with Bing when they try to go twenty-five and thirty pages of results deep looking for something. I don't recall whether the the later pages won't load or if it's more along the lines of later pages taking a long time to load. Other than that, though, everyone I know who switched to Bing is happy they did.

Google is a propaganda machine disguised as a search engine, at least that's my assessment of them. They make money by shoving ads in your face as if the ads were what everyone has been searching for and obscure the truth by making sure things that agree with their agenda show up early in the results of searches.

Regards

[chooseascreennamepat]

What am I missing? I have used Google for years and haven't had one lick of trouble. Although, my searches are simple.

[pabianice]

Copernic. Good and 100% agenda-free.

[Razzz42]

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[firebrand]

I have a suggestion for Google: Figure out a way for the few salient facts that fact checkers are looking for to come up on the first screen, without the fact checker having to hit any links.

E.g., when you put in a prominent person’s name: Correct spelling, birth and death dates, position, party affiliation if a politico, etc. This would save oodles of time.

Wkikpedia is pretty good, but you almost always have to go to the actual Wikipedia entry to check these things out.