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12-19-2012, 06:07 PM
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Registered: Apr 2012
Distribution: Pinguy OS
Posts: 318
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Which Search Engine do you use the most often?
1. Google
2. Bing
3. Yahoo Search
4. Ask
5. Others, you name it.
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12-19-2012, 07:35 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2012
Location: Maryland
Distribution: Fedora, Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu, Knoppix, Helix,
Posts: 228
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I use google and bing about the same amount. I don't prefer one or the other.
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12-19-2012, 08:32 PM
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Member
Registered: May 2010
Location: Japan
Distribution: Slackware 13.37, Slackware 14, Wind0z8, Ubuntu 12.10
Posts: 144
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I use duckduckgo! It offers https connections and no tracking. I recommend it.
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12-19-2012, 09:33 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2012
Location: Grenoble, Fr.
Distribution: Sun Solaris, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian 6.0
Posts: 1,636
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It's a useless question and at least shouldn't have asked in Linux - Newbie forum. Use General forum for such question which are actually not Linux oriented.
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12-19-2012, 09:38 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Midwest USA, Central Illinois
Distribution: SlackwareŽ
Posts: 10,358
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Member Response
Hi,
Go duck hunting with DuckDuckGo which is the best and safest deal! |
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12-20-2012, 07:08 AM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2012
Location: Italy
Distribution: Slackware, NetBSD
Posts: 409
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ahzthecat
I use duckduckgo! It offers https connections and no tracking. I recommend it.
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Yeah, when i can always duckduckgo |
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12-20-2012, 07:39 AM
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Registered: Oct 2007
Location: albuquerque
Posts: 101
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DuckDuckGo.
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12-20-2012, 07:40 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,089
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Duck has recently implemented a terminal interface which is quite interesting.
http://duckduckgo.com/tty/ |
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12-20-2012, 09:14 AM
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Amigo developer
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Germany
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 4,592
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clusty.com for me. Clustered results in case you (rarely) don't find what you look for on the first page of results.
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12-20-2012, 11:18 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: London
Distribution: CentOS, Salix
Posts: 2,241
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Only duckduckgo. I gave up on Google after the time I searched for bookcases and got hayracks.
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12-20-2012, 01:29 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2007
Location: India
Distribution: Slackware (mainly) and then a lot of others...
Posts: 833
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What about ixquick.com. I use them regularly and they do a god job.
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12-20-2012, 02:28 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: the Netherlands
Distribution: lfs, debian, rhel
Posts: 8,716
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Mainly duckduckgo, ixquick for the rare occasions I need a picture search.
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12-20-2012, 07:52 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2012
Distribution: Pinguy OS
Posts: 318
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Quote:
Originally Posted by onebuck
Hi,
Go duck hunting with DuckDuckGo which is the best and safest deal! |
it is new to me.  |
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12-20-2012, 09:15 PM
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Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Debian
Posts: 5,362
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Startpage.com (ixquick in the UK). Been my default choice for four or five years.
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12-20-2012, 11:23 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2012
Location: USA
Distribution: CrunchBang 11 (Waldorf) (laptop) | Debian 6.0.6 (Squeeze) (server)
Posts: 140
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Quote:
Originally Posted by druuna
Mainly duckduckgo, ixquick for the rare occasions I need a picture search.
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Ixquick's image search is seemingly a better option than my current solution (DDG: !gi Linus Torvalds). Thanks for the tip! |
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