NoTrack Internet Searching - Ditch Google if you're Stillin'

[Koula]

Seems that many of us interested in this hobby may be from surveillance states such as North Korea, USA, UK, France, Canada, or Australia. In light of recent revelations of the "entire internet" extent of NSA data collecting, it might have occurred to you to start using a different search engine. There is only one I know of that rivals Google in search power, in fact the results are more relevant as Google is known to be simply a massive facilitator of economic transactions, an ad-marketing platform first and a search engine second. The best part of having an ice-cold breakup with Google, is you no longer get ads showing on websites for products that you've recently looked at, you know, how you go to read the Guardian News online and there's a constant flashing ad for kitchen blenders that you looked at weeks ago? So anyways, if you're d'stillin' and want to minimize your digital footprint, consider giving http://duckduckgo.com a fair go instead.

And for a humorous look at what happens when you search with Google (care of DuckDuckgo): http://donttrack.us/

If you know of any other search engines promising to never track or record your search history, then definitely contribute.