Holy shit!
Facebook did not take on MySpace by saying there needs to be a public social media.
Offer something better than Google. Stop whining and just do it better. Don't ask the government to help you.
I don't use Google for their search engine anymore. Try duck.
duckduckgo still uses Google's search results. They just don't use it to spy on you.
I've tried other search sites, it's true that they're missing a lot. I even considered setting up my own crawler to crawl sites I'm interested in as I figure eventually Google will start filtering out sites I'm interested in.
No, we do not use Google search servers or algorithms. The only thing from Google that we currently use is we anonymously search YouTube on your behalf to display video results, which is necessary because, unfortunately, that is the only place where that content resides.
We also allow people to watch YouTube videos on DuckDuckGo, though that is not anonymous (as opposed to the search results). In that case, though, we have a warning that clearly indicates that Google can still track you, and we still do our best to allow you to watch YouTube videos on DuckDuckGo in a less-tracking way (using their no-cookie domain), which is the best you can do short of using a VPN
or Tor
It has it's own crawler called DuckDuckBot, and uses other search engines too like Bing, Yahoo ...
If I really needed to or had to use Google (although I don't know why), I could just use it from a brand new VM or something through Tor or through another ip address. I believe I used to type google.com/ncr so it's supposed to not redirect to whatever country it thinks I'm in.
Can also try Startpage I think.
