Best Search Engines (alternatives to Google?)

[Robert Fischer]

TLDR - Recommend any search engines alternatives to Google?

full spiel;
So... Google is AWESOME
AFAIK, Google has been the best for years. It has helped me tremendously.

However, I have noticed a trend of a mild, but steady increase in marketing/etc.. manipulation of the results.

I can see an extreme/full example of this if I search for a random drug question (rather than getting the pages you would formerly find, you now get 90% 'recovery village' 'addiction helpline',etc... pages)..

Now on any topic I can use the 'advanced search' and/or the characters (eg "-" minus sign to search without certain words, but that is tedious.
I'm high(on my morning 1 cup of coffee) and I have a great idea, and I'd like to 'surf the net' using my brainpower, without advertising or cookies or whatever manipulating the results.


TLDR - Recommend any search engines alternatives to Google?

[Robert Fischer]

"The search engine manipulation effect (SEME) is the change in consumer preferences from manipulations of search results by search engine providers. SEME is one of the largest behavioral effects ever discovered. This includes voting preferences. A 2015 study indicated that such manipulations could shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more and up to 80 percent in some demographics.[1][2]

The study estimated that this could change the outcome of upwards of 25 percent of national elections worldwide.

On the other hand, Google denies secretly re-ranking search results to manipulate user sentiment, or tweaking ranking specially for elections or political candidates.[3]

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[headhawg]

My default search engine is DuckDuckGo. Link

[xtb]

I use DuckDuckGo also. It does seem to make a difference.

[Robert Fischer]

Originally Posted by headhawg

My default search engine is DuckDuckGo. Link

Originally Posted by xtb

I use DuckDuckGo also. It does seem to make a difference.

Wow. Thx guys. Ran test searches, and DDG was significantly less manipulated with some of the search terms.

Thank you.

[pandy]

I've been using Duck Duck Go, too, and find it excellent.

[reckless]

I like Altavista and Dogpile.

Really, I've been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now ever since my choice of operating system is a Linux variant.

[headhawg]

Originally Posted by reckless

I like Altavista and Dogpile.

What? Not HotBot or Lycos??? Oh...I forgot AOL...isn't that the Internet??

[jimmyb]

DuckDuckGo here as well.

[plainolebill]

A lot of times when I use google to look for some information I get 10 pages of blogs (with ads) all displaying the same information word for word that I'm pretty sure they copied from some sucker's website. Shame on google, >>Dickheads<<