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Say goodbye to Google: 14 alternative search engines

Google Bing DuckDuckGo Quora Yandex WolframAlpha StartPage Ask.com
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    Google Search, also referred to as Google Web Search or simply Google, is a web search engine developed by Google. It is the most used search engine on the World Wide Web
    I won’t debate the merits of these improvements, we’ve done that already here: Google kills Right Hand Side Ads and here: Google launches Accelerated Mobile Pages, but there’s a definite feeling of vexation that appears to be coming to a head.

    #Search Engine #Internet Search #Web Search 3693 social mentions

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    Bing helps you turn information into action, making it faster and easier to go from searching to doing.
    But why should you use Bing? Lifehacker has some great articles where they try to convince themselves as much as anyone else why Bing is a serious contender to Google. Plus points include:

    #Search Engine #Internet Search #Mapping And GIS 337 social mentions

  3. The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
    Pricing:
    • Open Source
    The key feature of DuckDuckGo is that it doesn’t retain its users‘ data, so it won’t track you or manipulate results based on your behaviour. So if you’re particularly spooked by Google’s all-seeing, all-knowing eye, this might be the one for you.

    #Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 1669 social mentions

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    Quora is a place to gain and share knowledge. It's a platform to ask questions and connect with people who contribute unique insights and quality answers.
    As Google gets better and better at answering more complicated questions, it will never be able to match the personal touch available with Quora.

    #Forums #Knowledge Sharing #Questions And Answers 76 social mentions

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    Yandex is a technology company that builds intelligent products and services powered by machine learning. Our goal is to help consumers and businesses better navigate the online and offline world.
    Dogpile may look like a search engine you cobbled together with clip-art, but that’s rather the point as it pulls in and ‘curates’ results from various different engines including Google, Yandex and Yahoo, but removes all the ads.

    #Search Engine #Internet Search #Web Search 125 social mentions

  6. WolframAlpha brings expert-level knowledge and capabilities to the broadest possible range of people—spanning all professions and education levels.
    WolframAlpha is a ‘computational knowledge engine’, or super clever nerd to you and me. Ask it to calculate any data or ask it about any fact and it will give you the answer. Plus it does this awesome ‘computing’ thing while it thinks about your answer (which can take a short while.)

    #Knowledge Search #Knowledge Search Engine #Search Engine 43 social mentions

  7. Startpage search engine, the new private way to search Google. Protect your Privacy with Startpage!
    With StartPage, none of your details are stored (including your IP address) and no cookies are used, save for a single, anonymous cookie that’s used to remember your preferences. (For those who want to go “cookie-free”, StartPage has a URL generator alternative to save your settings).

    #Search Engine #Internet Search #Web Search

  8. Ask.com is the #1 question answering service that delivers the best answers from the web and real people - all in one place.
    WolframAlpha is a ‘computational knowledge engine’, or super clever nerd to you and me. Ask it to calculate any data or ask it about any fact and it will give you the answer. Plus it does this awesome ‘computing’ thing while it thinks about your answer (which can take a short while.)

    #Questions And Answers #Search Engine #Internet Search 29 social mentions

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