DuckDuckGo

Over the last year or so I've noticed google giving way to more sponsored results. I used to use google as a phone book by typing in a persons name, city and state and it would pull a number right up. Now it is filled with listings for every type of yellow page service imaginable. I'm also not real fond of a company tracking and storing all search results regardless what I'm searching for, it just doesn't give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

So I've started a search for a new search engine. One of the most important things to me is a page that loads really fast as a home page. With Bing, yahoo and most of the others it throws up a background picture or wallpaper, along with news headlines, a million links, weather, etc. I don't want all that and it is the main thing that has kept me using google.

I've been using www.duckduckgo.com as my home page and search engine the last week and don't think I'll be going back to anything else. It doesn't have the same resources as google with images, shopping, maps, videos, etc but as a search engine it is wonderful. Plus if you want to search images it gives you the option to search google images or yahoo images but without the tracking.

Anyway, just though I'd pass it on and see if anyone else has tried it out.