Ngl i have been using webcrawler because all the blocked/promoted nonsense from Google made it virtually unusable and webcrawler has a few pages of nonsense but I've found everything I need.
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Most interesting would be a forced sell of Android. Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution? Would we see more official distributions of Android without any Google software?
Would all of the Google spyware be stripped out of Google’s Android distribution?
No. Or, almost certainly no. If they were forced to sell Android, my guess would be that another tech giant, that makes most of their money from data harvesting, would be most likely to buy it. Meaning any spyware would remain, and just be pointed to different servers.
I don't know, but yahoo used to be the go to aswell until a better option came. I'll tell you what though, it will be a cold day in hell when I use Bing.
Every engine out there other than Google already uses Bing. Bing actually has a usable privacy model; it’s one of the products IMO Microsoft actually got right.
I do long for the days of Lycos, AltaVista, Hotbot, etc. though; the ad system was simpler then.
Actually, what I really miss is the days of Archie, Veronica and Jughead, before flashing ads and marquees were even possible.
I thought Mojeek used its own engine, and I know Yacy does.
AskJeeves!
I want my altavista back
How much have you edged today?
Duckduckgo is actually really good. Everyone ive shown it to has complained about the search results in the first few days then months later they say its so much better. Bangs are such a good feature.
I use Mullvad Leta and I'm really happy with it.
I mean I bump brave - add free, and protects your privacy far better than any alternative I know, including Chrome ( I am not a no-it-all in the web browser privacy department however)