Privacy and Security Tips
Alternatives to Google: When it comes to privacy, using Google search is not a good idea. When you use their search engine, Google is recording your IP address, search terms, user agent, and often a unique identifier, which is stored in cookies. Here are 9 alternatives to Google search: 1. Searx – A privacy-friendly and versatile metasearch engine that’s also open source. 2. MetaGer – An open source metasearch engine with good features, based in Germany. 3. SwissCows – A zero-tracking private search engine based in Switzerland, hosted on secure Swiss infrastructure. 4. Qwant – A private search engine based in France. 5. DuckDuckGo – A private search engine based in the US. 6. Mojeek – The only true search engine (rather than metasearch engine) that has its own crawler and index (based in the UK). 7. YaCy – A decentralized, open source, peer-to-peer search engine. 8. Givero – Based in Denmark, Givero offers more privacy than Google and combines search with charit...