looking for a free privacy search engine

brownsnoopy

anyone out there that know of any free search engines that will allow me to have privacy form google. i used to use scroogle but it has been shut down. appreciate any information thanks.:A

kwikbreaks

Using Bing instead gives 100% privacy from those nasty google spies. Of course it also gives pretty useless results...

robt_2

brownsnoopy wrote: »

anyone out there that know of any free search engines that will allow me to have privacy form google. i used to use scroogle but it has been shut down. appreciate any information thanks.:A

What exactly are you trying to achieve - do you just want a search engine which is not Google? If so there are hundreds. Or are you worried about something in particular to do with Google?

kwikbreaks

robt wrote: »

What exactly are you trying to achieve - do you just want a search engine which is not Google? If so there are hundreds. Or are you worried about something in particular to do with Google?

He wants to use google because they give the best results but avoid them tracking what he searches for - they use this data for ad targetting (and maybe even the results) based on what you've (well the PC anyway) searched for previously. I'm assuming he doesn't want potentially embarrassing ads to be served if someone else uses the machine rather than just being paranoid although that of course is always a possibility.

Sooler

use Firefox with the Greasemonkey add on - https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/748

then install Greasemonkey scripts to disable all Google tracking and ads
http://lifehacker.com/5212438/disable-google-click-tracking-with-a-user-script

Sooler

Scroogle is back online

web_ferret

Installed the greasemonkey thing into firefox so thanks for the tip.