Life without Google – search engine alternatives

Here's the Chrome extension for those that want it:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...chrome/bpphkkgodbfncbcpgopijlfakfgmclao?hl=en

It's got some great keyboard shortcuts as well.

I started using it recently as well, purely based on the "filter bubble" only. It's great to get pure results rather than results based on my history. I'm not freaked about my search history and ip address logging etc. that much, since I couldn't give a rats rear who sees what I do online, since everything I do I'm open about.
 
Haven't used Google in ages. DuckDuckGo is awesome
 
Any search engines that support result filtering like google used to do (filter results by forums, blogs etc)? Most of what I search for is in forums and google decided to remove that feature :/. Greasemonkey script is fine but sometimes I'm not at my pc and don't feel like manually inserting url's and stuff.
 
Never heard of Duckduckgo :o

I'll use it the next few times, see how it compares to Google...
 
if you're a dirty hippy, or just want to do a bit of good, check out ecosia at http://www.ecosia.org/ they donte money for tree-planting. I do sometimes revert to google, but use ecosia most of the time. they also have a firefox plugin, dunno about chrome or explorer though, they suck as browsers :p

PLANT A TREE DAMMIT! :D
 
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Google's ad focus, and their tendancy to serve shaped personalized results, make me want to try other options. I also very much dislike their new results page design.

Going to give DuckDuckGo a good 2 week trial starting now!
 
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