Search Engines

sleepali

I've been using Google for ages now but am not happy about them storing my searches/info.

I'm looking towards Copernic. Any recommendations please?

woo

google desktop search or web search?

sleepali

woo wrote:

google desktop search or web search?

Sorry, web search

woo

thought copernic utalises other search engines, which would mean your searches are stored anyway.

Don't think you will find any search engine that doesn't do that - MSN and Yahoo do.

Chippy_Minton

You can anonymise your Google searches; see http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=149643

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_and_privacy_issues

sra

I was looking at this just last night. Scandoo looks good. It uses google but apparently there aren't the privacy problems. (even though it looks like google after you search, you can see by the url that you're not there)

The problem is if you click on image search, it throws you into google

albertross_2

If you have a dynamic ip address, just wipe out your cookies on boot with https://www.ccleaner.com, then google won't be able to link one days searches with the previous days (unless you search for your name every day).

sleepali

albertross wrote:

If you have a dynamic ip address, just wipe out your cookies on boot with https://www.ccleaner.com, then google won't be able to link one days searches with the previous days (unless you search for your name every day).

I have now set CCleaner to run on start up and thanx everyone for all your feedback, some very interesting reading there too!

albertross_2

You might also want to block 3rd party cookies if you are worried about people tracking you:

IE, tools, internet options, privacy, advanced, block third party cookies, ok, ok