Google Search is the most popular search engine on the Internet. Google can search for webpages, images, videos, news, and various other forms of media.
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• Negative comment • over 5 years ago • 15 users agree • 2 replies
google:
collects your data
alters your search results
offers you its own websites in the results
ddg:
doesn't track you
shows the same search results for everyone everywhere (+ gives you the option to localize them to a particular country)
lets you search thousands of other engines through !bangs (e.g. !g takes you to google, !bi to bing images, !w to wikipedia...)
allows you to customize the look and feel
is community-based
switch to duckduckgo!
Gamer_M
same
Reply written over 5 years ago
JohnFastman
foerno's comment above is accurate. Google track not just your searches, but where you go online, what you write in your emails, to whom and much else besides. Their business model consists of building up a profile of their users and making a profit from this. It is far worse than being followed around by a private detective. You cannot predict who will have this information in 20 years time and how it could be used. We already know that intelligence agencies are asking companies like Google and Yahoo to hand this information over to them. This applies to people who use Google, Yahoo, Bing even if they don't live in the US.
So alternatives to Google search: several. DuckDuckGo is one. Another is Startpage, which searches Google on your behalf and gives you their results without ever revealing to Google that it was you that searched for the information. Another option is Disconnect Search, which does a similar thing.
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• Negative comment • almost 10 years ago • 10 users agree • 0 replies
Google is bad. Use DuckDuckGo, it has more privacy, little to no spam, !bang, 0-click info, and tons of customizations. Google offers none of this.
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• Negative comment • about 11 years ago • 9 users agree • 1 reply
I'm afraid of Google. There is an episode on the old TV show The Twilight Zone. Martians come down to earth with a book titled "To Serve Man' They claim they came to earth to save the earths population and start transporting earthlings to the moon.Everything looked good for awhile until one day an earthling discovered that the book "To Serve Man " is a cookbook. Google reminds me a lot of that episode only now Google is the martians. They collect way too much information on internet users for my sense of safety ,comfort and well being.
jasonbrown1965
Haha the "To Serve Man" alien cookbook, priceless.
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• Review • about 3 years ago • 6 users agree and 1 doesn't • 0 replies
accurate search but doesn't respect privacy
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Comment • almost 2 years ago • 5 users agree • 0 replies
Google Search was added to AlternativeTo by on Dec 5, 2009 and this page was last updated Jan 14, 2020. Google Search is sometimes referred to as Google.
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ddg:
switch to duckduckgo!
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Reply written over 5 years ago
foerno's comment above is accurate. Google track not just your searches, but where you go online, what you write in your emails, to whom and much else besides. Their business model consists of building up a profile of their users and making a profit from this. It is far worse than being followed around by a private detective. You cannot predict who will have this information in 20 years time and how it could be used. We already know that intelligence agencies are asking companies like Google and Yahoo to hand this information over to them. This applies to people who use Google, Yahoo, Bing even if they don't live in the US.
So alternatives to Google search: several. DuckDuckGo is one. Another is Startpage, which searches Google on your behalf and gives you their results without ever revealing to Google that it was you that searched for the information. Another option is Disconnect Search, which does a similar thing.
Reply written about 4 years ago
Google is bad. Use DuckDuckGo, it has more privacy, little to no spam, !bang, 0-click info, and tons of customizations. Google offers none of this.
I'm afraid of Google. There is an episode on the old TV show The Twilight Zone. Martians come down to earth with a book titled "To Serve Man' They claim they came to earth to save the earths population and start transporting earthlings to the moon.Everything looked good for awhile until one day an earthling discovered that the book "To Serve Man " is a cookbook. Google reminds me a lot of that episode only now Google is the martians. They collect way too much information on internet users for my sense of safety ,comfort and well being.
Haha the "To Serve Man" alien cookbook, priceless.
Reply written 6 months ago
accurate search but doesn't respect privacy
Google sucks. Duckduckgo is the future.