You like Google but you LOVE your privacy?

[aguila]

Here's something for ya:

https://startpage.com

the world's most private search engine

[timeth]

Hmmmm, does this mean that their other page doesn't give Google results?

https://www.ixquick.com/

[aguila]

It seems that's correct. I've been using ixquick exclusively for a year now and it never failed on me.

Just now I read that startpage.com is not a new service, they only added google to their search engines.

There was a note on the ixquick search results page that startpage.com now also

[parnote]

Very interesting!

[johnmart]

"You like Google but you LOVE your privacy" --- That's me!

I tried this & so far so good. From the homepage you can d/l the script to set startpage as your default search engine, select it in preferences & there you go.

I like it.  

btw, did the same for FF!

[weirdwolf]

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

On Startpage the privacy of Ixquick is combined with the Web search results from Google. The combination of these two features is what makes Startpage so special.
You can continue using the Web results from the world's most popular search engine but now under the privacy protection of Ixquick, the world's most private search engine.

https://www.ixquick.com/eng/what-makes-ixquick-special.html

More comprehensive search results
When you search with Ixquick search engine, you are searching many popular search engines simultaneously and anonymously. Combined, these engines cover more of the Internet than any one search engine alone.

Both are run by ixquick, which is a meta search engine. I seem to recall reading that Start Page is geared more towards the US, and seems to me to be similar to Scroogle .

I have used both for some time now (Mainly ixquick. Don't remember the last time I used Google search), about the same time or longer as aguila. I still use GIS but I'm starting to use the image search on ixquick, it works alittle different and will take some getting used to.

Only one problem I've noticed so far with ixquick/Start Page is that I can't save a search page to return to later as it returns to https://www.ixquick.com/eng/ instead.

[arkanabar]

I tend to use DDG.  If I need a google search I just put !g at the start (!gi for google images).  Only rather infrequently do I go to Google's advanced search page (which I can still access through a bookmark).

neat tidbit:  You can use DDG to search WolframAlpha with a !wa prefix.  I really like wolfram alpha.  There are lots of those bang syntax prefixes, for all sorts of things, like youtube, IMDB, bing (a microsoft product I generally avoid), & so on & so forth.  They add more all the time, including several for linux.

[timeth]

Scroogle rocks my boat!     Every day Scroogle crumbles 350,000 cookies and blocks a million ads and uses google directly.

https://ssl.scroogle.org/

[djohnston]

Scroogle rocks my boat!     Every day Scroogle crumbles 350,000 cookies and blocks a million ads and uses google directly.

https://ssl.scroogle.org/

I used it for years. Unfortunately, it is unreliable now. It was working for me about 25% of the time. The other 75%, I received an error message.

[timeth]

I used it for years. Unfortunately, it is unreliable now. It was working for me about 25% of the time. The other 75%, I received an error message.

Yes, I too have recently been recieving error messages quite frequently. It's a shame