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Title: Looking for an efficient search engine....
Post by: vanjast on November 26, 2011, 07:46:25 PM
.. 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
Title: Re: Looking for an efficient search engine....
Post by: Twister on November 28, 2011, 04:50:51 AM
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
Title: Re: Looking for an efficient search engine....
Post by: vanjast on November 28, 2011, 07:24:12 AM
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..
Title: Re: Looking for an efficient search engine....
Post by: Twister on November 28, 2011, 11:18:42 PM
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.
Title: Re: Looking for an efficient search engine....
Post by: Tedd on November 29, 2011, 12:37:05 PM
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 (http://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/
Title: Re: Looking for an efficient search engine....
Post by: dedndave on November 29, 2011, 12:43:10 PM
you forgot www.booble.com (http://www.booble.com)   :P
Title: Re: Looking for an efficient search engine....
Post by: Tedd on November 29, 2011, 12:49:39 PM
Quote from: dedndave on November 29, 2011, 12:43:10 PM
you forgot www.booble.com (http://www.booble.com)   :P

You forgot "NSFW"
Title: Re: Looking for an efficient search engine....
Post by: dedndave on November 29, 2011, 12:50:45 PM
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