DuckDuckGo

PayOrPlay said

Me too. I like the idea of DDG in theory but in actuality Google's results are generally more comprehensive and tend to turn up what I want accurately. And I tend to just ignore anything that looks like a sponsored result--in fact, I will go out of my way to avoid clicking a paid link; even when it's the link I want, I'll try to find a nonsponsored version or get rid of the referral code myself.

I do find it unnerving to see ads targeted to my search history--for example, after having researched some European riverboat cruises for my dad a few months ago, I keep seeing tons of ads for a particular river cruise company.

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There are some simple things it is missing. In google if you type in the name of a business and the city then it pops up with a phone number, address, website and map to the location. If you do the same in duck it gives you a dozen pages you can go to get the same information.

Now if I'm browsing to try and find certain websites or searching for topics or answers then ddg does a better job returning results. Only problem is the search results with duck are just a little better but when searching for a place or business google's results are ten times better so then it is just easier to use google than two different search engines.

I'm going to keep trying it and see if I can't break away from google as much as possible.