Nowadays the importance of privacy is has become a major issue in the world of internet. most of the search engines that we use regularly use have been used to trace our every move online.
Google has even recently dropped its moratorium on combining what it learns by scanning your emails with what it learns about you through your searches. Information that is typically collect when you surfed the net are:
- your ip address
- your date and time of the query
- what you have searched
- cookies ID
This informations are transmitted from the requested web page and also send to the third party advertisement banner. And this advertisers make make a profile of you as you keep surfing the net. Not just the advertisers your information could also land up to police of NSA without your concern.
So how to protect yourself from being spied??
The answer is simple, use other alternatives which don't spy on you. Here are some of the alternative that you can use:
1.DuckDuckGo:
DuckDuckGo (DDG) is an Internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo distinguishes itself from other search engines by not profiling its users and by deliberately showing all users the same search results for a given search term. DuckDuckGo emphasizes returning the best results, rather than the most results, and generates those results from over 400 individual sources, including key crowdsourced sites such as Wikipedia, and other search engines like Bing, Yahoo!, Yandex, and Yummly.
Website: https://duckduckgo.com/
2.Startpage:
When you search with StartPage the Web results are generated by Google. This offers you the search results and search features you may have grown accustomed to.
However, On StartPage the privacy of Ixquick is combined with the Web search results from Google. The combination of these two features is what makes StartPage so special.
You can continue using the Web results from the world's most popular search engine but now under the privacy protection of Ixquick, the world's most private search engine.
Website: https://www.startpage.com/
3.SearX
Searx is a metasearch engine, aggregating the results of other search engines while not storing information about its users.
Searx is a metasearch engine, inspired by the seeks project.
It provides basic privacy by mixing your queries with searches on other platforms without storing search data. Queries are made using a POST request on every browser (except chrome*). Therefore they show up in neither our logs, nor your URL history. In case of Chrome* users, there is an exception, searx uses the search bar to perform GET requests.
Searx can be added to your browser's search bar; moreover, it can be set as the default search engine.
Website: https://searx.me/
4.Peekier
Peekier (pronounced/'pi·ki·er/) is a new way to search the web. Peek through search results fast and securely on a search engine that respects your privacy.
Peekier shows you a website preview of the search results. Clicking on a result will maximize the preview and allow you to scroll through the website. You can then decide if the information displayed on the website interests you or not before clicking on the link.
Peekier does not log your personal info or track you throughout your browsing sessions.
Website: https://peekier.com/
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