Looking for an efficient search engine....

[vanjast]

.. something with no frills (eg: unwanted net activity) and fast, to replace google and other 'too popular' ones.

Maybe some of you guys have good experience on a favourite..
:U

[Twister]

There is MC Hammer's search engine that is launching into beta soon.

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-20/tech/tech_web_mc-hammer-search-engine_1_search-engine-mc-hammer-google?_s=PM:TECH

[vanjast]

That's funny... :bg
It'll probably play rap to you while you search....

It'll probably be worse than google. I think for technically minded people there's is a market for no frills, ads, picture 'blogging/bloating' websites.
Straight text and next to the search results,maybe a teeny weeny  little advertiser icon with a link... no more than that. No stats collection extra web apis tracking you IP selections..etc.

IOW, a 'trustworthy' website..

[Twister]

https://startpage.com/

It uses Google's search engine, but does the search through their service. No tracking cookies or the likes. I'm guessing this is what you mean. I would take it since it uses Google's power engine.

[Tedd]

I was going to make a joke about using gopher (the original internet 'search engine' - before there was even WWW), but someone got there first -- www.gopher.com

(Though it's really just another identity of http://www.webcrawler.com/)



And some others.. http://www.altavista.com/  http://www.ask.com/  http://www.bing.com/  http://www.excite.com/  http://www.lycos.com/  http://www.yahoo.com/

[dedndave]

you forgot www.booble.com   :P

[Tedd]

you forgot www.booble.com   :P

You forgot "NSFW"

[dedndave]

never heard of it
i found booble one day, by accident - lol
after that, i tried "www.fart.com", just to see if it was there