With the rise of censorship and tracking, alternatives to Google and Yandex are becoming more and more interesting for users. We will tell you about three non-banned search engines that do not collect personal information about you, but, on the contrary, protect your privacy.
Startpage: the world's most discrete search engine
Startpage.com calls itself "the world's most discrete search engine." Since 2016, the service has been merged with the Ixquick website. As proof of the safety of its search, Startpage.com positions itself as the only search engine to have an EU privacy certificate.
Startpage.com promises not to store users' IP addresses and, according to the service,does not use cookies for tracking. In addition, Startpage.com is accessible from the Tor network.The search engine servers are located in the Netherlands.
The site has a handy feature:search results can be viewed using the "Proxy" option, which encrypts the connection to the corresponding web page using a proxy server. Thus, this is a real search engine without bans: you can safely browse what your provider is blocking.
Search proxies: Startpage quietly bypasses Yandex.DNS blocking
Search proxies are the main feature of Startpage, which makes it an uncensored search engine. If you need to search without blocking, this service is for you.
DuckDuckGo: anonymous search engine from the USA
DuckDuckGo is the most widely used secure Google alternative with over ten million queries per day.Despite the fact that the search engine servers are located in the US, DuckDuckGo.com does offer some interesting features.
If you search through DuckDuckGo.com, your IP address will not be saved. The system is also nDoes not use tracking cookies.DuckDuckGo uses HTTPS encryption. You can also enter a query into the search engine through the Tor network. In addition, you can use various themes to customize the display of the search page.
You cannot open sites through a proxy here. But given that the system is outside the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation, for example, the “right to be forgotten” in the sense in which it is understood in our country does not apply to it.The search results may not be perfect, but they are still quite useful.
The right to be forgotten: DuckDuckGo finds sites with compromising evidence, blocked in the Russian Federation. Google - news only This service is more suitable for those who primarily value anonymity and search without tracking. Or those who want to find information excluded from search results in the Russian Federation. However, be warned: in Russia, DuckDuckGo has become a partner of Yandex, so you can expect everything.
notEvil: search on the internet, which does not exist
The notEvil search engine allows you to search from the Internet using the Tor anonymous network. To do this, you do not need to install any additional software (although you will need it in order to open the search results).
This search engine allows you to search on the so-called darknet - that part of the Internet that is usually inaccessible to the average user. Due to blocking, useful services are gradually moving into it, for example, for downloading content.
Most web search engines on Tor shamelessly make money from ads: you get results from Tor, plus a handful of advertisements and tracking as a gift. notEvil basically does not do this. It is clear that we are not talking about IP tracking and the use of cookies at all.
notEvil: helps you find things in Tor that may not exist on the Internet The site is useful for those who want to get acquainted with the contents of the invisible Internet; hardcore anonymity guaranteed. By the way, we recommend that you bookmark the link right away - URLs in the "Tor-to-web" category are very unfriendly to remember.
Anonymous search engines as a safe alternative to Google
All three search engines do not log your IP address and do not use tracking cookies. Encryption using HTTPS is provided by all named providers.
The best search results in the test were shown by the search engine DuckDuckGo, and you will get guaranteed safety when choosing an alternative search engine with the Startpage.com system. The EU Data Protection Certification confirms that the search engine is sticking to its promises of search anonymity. For searching on the darknet, in turn, notEvil comes in handy.
It's no secret that the largest search engines in the world are Google, Yandex, Yahoo, Bing, etc. - collect a lot of different information on search queries. And there are no guarantees that, at the request of the authorities, they will not transfer this data to third parties. And here it is not necessary to be a criminal or paranoid, it is enough just that this prospect is, in principle, unpleasant and no one wants strangers to track their data. The second point, which should also be mentioned, is censorship and restrictions on search sites: the systems apply various filters and prohibitions. For example - filters for eroticism and cruelty, restrictions of Roskomnadzor, filters of the search engine itself. To get away from all this and find the information you need without restrictions, without filters, and, even more so, without registration, you can use third-party search engines without censorship. Fortunately, there are a lot of them on the Internet. I will bring my top five.
1. DuckDuckGo
The most popular unpopular search 😉 is DuckDuckGo.com. It is rightfully considered the most advanced search engine of the "second grade". Many eminent computer publications consider it the best alternative to Google. "Duck" search (Duck - "duck" in translation from English) is even set by default as the main one on some web browsers. For example, SRWare Iron. Here, the site administration declares the complete safety of user data, since the servers do not store information about the search queries of their users. Of course, it is clear that in some way the developers can be cunning and some part of the data on queries in DuckDuckGo is sold to advertisers - the organization is commercial, you need to make a profit. In addition, the entire system runs on the Amazon platform, which cooperates with the American authorities. But now you will not get absolute guarantees anywhere, and therefore it remains only to believe the administration that this site is a search engine without censorship. Moreover, so far there was no reason to distrust them. But DuckDuckGo is 100% without limits and filters - look for whatever your heart desires!
2. Qwant
An excellent independent search service of French origin with its own site indexing system. Its main "trick" is the anonymity of the entered web requests: neither the requests themselves, nor the IP addresses of users, nor any other data are recorded. This fact more or less guarantees the work of the search without censorship. The French search engine QWant.com works relatively quickly. In addition, his work is constantly being improved. Separately, it should be said that some eminent hackers provide consultations on anonymity and security for its developers.
3. Unbubble
The unbubble.eu website is a really effective search service, neutral to restrictions in different countries. This search engine is uncensored and does not use filters, which makes it easy to search for photos, anime, hentai, etc. Separately, it is worth mentioning that unbubble is not an ordinary site, but a metasearch site. What does it mean? It does not have its own index; instead, the complex uses the results of other search engines. That is, in fact, it provides an opportunity to use all the strengths of the leaders of the Internet search. At the same time, the site does not use cookies, it does not store user data. And to prevent their interception, encryption is used.
4. Ixquick
Another metasearch tool with a simple and user-friendly interface. He was the very first to delete data about his users and has not collected it since 2006. Ixquick.com provides access to all the "buns" of the same Google system and at the same time fully provides anonymity using a cryptographic algorithm. The user's IP is deleted from the database after 48 hours. True, because of the same crypto-system Ixquick Search Engine, processing requests takes much longer than desired. But everything in this world has to be paid for. Waiting is not the biggest price to pay for lack of restrictions and anonymity.
5. YaCy
The site search.yacy.net is a German search engine that allows you to relatively quickly, and most importantly, successfully search for uncensored films, clips, videos and photos. It is developed by YaCy. It spins in the cloud and is not tied to any restrictions or filters like Roskomnadzor, etc. Its data is stored in a distributed form, which means that no one can track your request. In addition, this anonymous search engine without registration and advertising. The disadvantage here is the same as in Ixquick - it takes a very long time to process requests. But there's nothing you can do about it. The Tor anonymous network is also slow. So this is a common problem with all such systems.
6. StartPage
The pseudo-search engine StartPage.com is essentially just a proxy service for sending requests to the good old Google. But this is what makes it an anonymous uncensored search engine, because it does not record your IP and data about the browser, and therefore does not transmit them further, masking the request.
7. Tryndex
Tryndeks is a Russian search engine without filters and restrictions. Despite the fact that his main focus is on the search for ads, he is excellent at searching for music, videos and games without restrictions. This search site has Belarusian, Ukrainian and Kazakh mirrors. Unfortunately, there is no information about the anonymity of users. In addition, there are advertisements on it. Unfortunately, this is the only such large service in Russia.
Global search
You can quickly search for data in the system by entering a search query at the command line. Data are searched for in all sections of the system, including user sections, regardless of where the search is started from - from the main menu or from a specific section.
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For applications deployed on-site, you need to preconfigure global search. Read more in the article.
How the search is performed
The search is performed on all fields of the record - both text and reference, as well as on the following details: [Addresses], [Communications] and [Payment details]. For example, you can find a counterparty by entering its alternative name or phone number, address, or current account number in the search bar.
Search queries are processed taking into account common typos and morphology - different forms of words entered in the search bar are taken into account. The request can be entered in any register. All you have to do is enter the text you are looking for, for example, the name of a knowledge base article or the last name of a contact. For a more precise search, you can specify the query, for example, enter “avdorov director axiom”.
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For the section data to be displayed in the global search results, the [Index for full-text search] checkbox must be enabled in the section wizard. For more information about indexing, see the article By default, indexing is enabled in the [Contacts], [Accounts], [Employees], [Knowledge Base], [Leads], [Sales], [Products], [Orders], [Invoices], [ Agreements], [Documents], [Projects], [Services], [Service Agreements], [Configurations], [Cases], [Problems], [Changes], [Campaigns], [Events] and [Marketing Plans].
How search results are presented
Search results are presented in the form of a registry of entries containing the text of the search query or part of it. In each found record, the text of the query for which a match was found () is highlighted in bold.
Rice. 1 - List of search results
The results are displayed by relevance, both for the entire list of results, and when filtering the found records. For example, if the search was performed from the [Contacts] section, then records of this section will be displayed at the beginning of the list, and records from other sections of the system will be displayed below. And if you set a filter by contact on the page with search results, then matches by name will be displayed first in the list.
If the user does not have access rights to a certain column of the object, for example, to view the invoice amount, then such a column is not displayed on the global search results page.
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The rules for displaying search results are defined using the system settings “Default object weight for global search” and “Default primary column weight for global search”.
To display data found with typos and morphology in search results, enable the "Show search results by partial match" system setting.
To regulate the issuance of search results by partial match and increase the probability of finding data if the search query is inaccurate, set the value of the system setting “Match share to be displayed in search results,%”.
A detailed description of the system settings is available in the article
Example of searching for a contact by phone number
Let's consider how to find a contact by his phone number.
1.Enter a phone number in the search bar in any format - you can enter only the part of the number that you remember, with or without special separator characters.
2. Press on or on the keyboard key.
GLOBAL SEARCH
(global search) An operation in the processing of text by a computer, when it looks through the whole thing in order to track each case of mentioning a particular word or phrase in it to automatically replace them with the specified word or phrase.
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At first glance, it may seem that only Yandex can be better than Google, and even that is not a fact. These companies are investing huge amounts of money in innovation and development. Does anyone really have a chance not only to compete with the leaders, but also to win? Lifehacker's answer: "Yes!" There are several search engines that have succeeded. Let's take a look at our heroes.
What is it
It is a fairly well-known open source search engine. The servers are located in the USA. In addition to its own robot, the search engine uses results from other sources: Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wikipedia, Wolfram | Alpha.
The better
DuckDuckGo positions itself as a search engine that provides maximum privacy and confidentiality. The system does not collect any user data, does not store logs (no search history), the use of cookies is as limited as possible.
DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information from users. This is our privacy policy.
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo
Why do you need it
All major search engines try to personalize search results based on the data about the person in front of the monitor. This phenomenon is called the "filter bubble": the user sees only those results that are consistent with his preferences or that the system considers as such.
DuckDuckGo creates an objective picture that does not depend on your past behavior on the web, and gets rid of Google and Yandex thematic ads based on your queries. DuckDuckGo makes it easy to search for information in foreign languages: Google and Yandex by default give preference to Russian-language sites, even if the request is entered in another language.
What is it
"" Is a Russian metasearch system developed by MSU alumni Viktor Lavrenko and Vladimir Chernyshov. Searches the indexes of Google, Bing, Yandex and others, and also has its own search algorithm.
The better
Searching the indexes of all major search engines allows you to generate relevant results. In addition, "Nigma" breaks the results into several thematic groups (clusters) and prompts the user to narrow the search field by discarding unnecessary ones or highlighting priority ones. Thanks to the modules "Mathematics" and "Chemistry", you can solve mathematical problems right in the search bar and query the results of chemical reactions.
Why do you need it
Eliminates the need to search for the same query in different search engines. The cluster system makes it easy to manipulate search results. For example, Nigma collects results from online stores in a separate cluster. If you do not intend to buy something, then simply exclude this group. By choosing the "English-language sites" cluster, you will receive results in English only. The modules "Mathematics" and "Chemistry" will help schoolchildren.
Unfortunately, the project is currently not developing, as the developers have moved their activity to the Vietnamese market. Nevertheless, "Nigma" is not only not outdated yet, but in some things it still gives a head start to Google. Hopefully, development will resume.
What is it
not Evil is a search engine for the Tor anonymous network. To use it, you need to go to this network, for example, by launching a specialized browser of the same name. not Evil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is LOOK (the default search in the Tor browser, accessible from the regular Internet) or TORCH (one of the oldest search engines in the Tor network) and others. We settled on not Evil because of the unambiguous allusion to Google itself (just look at the start page).
The better
Searches where Google, Yandex and other search engines are closed in principle.
Why do you need it
There are many resources on the Tor network that cannot be found on the law-abiding Internet. And as the authorities tighten their control over the content of the Web, their number will grow. Tor is a kind of Network within the Network: with its own social networks, torrent trackers, media, marketplaces, blogs, libraries, and so on.
YaCy
What is it
YaCy is a decentralized search engine based on P2P networks. Each computer on which the main software module is installed scans the Internet independently, that is, it is an analogue of a search robot. The results obtained are collected in a common database, which is used by all participants in YaCy.
The better
It is difficult to say whether it is better or worse here, since YaCy is a completely different approach to organizing search. The absence of a single server and company-owner makes the results completely independent of someone's preferences. The autonomy of each node excludes censorship. YaCy is capable of searching the deep web and non-indexed public networks.
Why do you need it
If you are a supporter of open source software and the free Internet, which is not influenced by government agencies and large corporations, then YaCy is your choice. It can also be used to organize searches within a corporate or other autonomous network. And while YaCy is not very useful in everyday life, it is a worthy alternative to Google in terms of the search process.
Pipl
What is it
Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person.
The better
The authors of Pipl claim that their specialized algorithms search more efficiently than "regular" search engines. In particular, the priority sources of information are social media profiles, comments, lists of participants and various databases where information about people is published, such as databases of court decisions. Pipl's leadership in this area is confirmed by ratings from Lifehacker.com, TechCrunch and other publications.
Why do you need it
If you need to find information about a person living in the United States, then Pipl will be much more effective than Google. The databases of Russian courts are apparently inaccessible to a search engine. Therefore, he does not cope with the citizens of Russia so well.
What is it
Another specialized search engine. Searches for various sounds (house, nature, cars, people, etc.) in open sources. The service does not support queries in Russian, but there is an impressive list of Russian-language tags that you can search for.
The better
The results are only sounds and nothing more. In the search settings, you can set the desired format and sound quality. All found sounds are available for download. There is a search for sounds by pattern.
Why do you need it
If you need to quickly find the sound of a musket shot, the blows of a sucking woodpecker, or the scream of Homer Simpson, then this service is for you. And I chose this only from the available Russian-language requests. In English, the spectrum is even wider. But seriously, a specialized service assumes a specialized audience. But what if it comes in handy?
The life of alternative search engines is often fleeting. Lifehacker asked Sergei Petrenko, the former general director of the Ukrainian branch of Yandex, about the long-term prospects of such projects.
As for the fate of alternative search engines, it is simple: to be very niche projects with a small audience, therefore, without clear commercial prospects, or, conversely, with complete clarity of their absence.
If you look at the examples in the article, you can see that such search engines either specialize in a narrow but demanded niche, which, perhaps only so far, has not grown enough to be noticeable on Google or Yandex radars, or they are testing an original hypothesis in ranking. which is not yet applicable in regular search.
For example, if a search on Tor suddenly turns out to be in demand, that is, the results from there will be needed at least by a percentage of Google's audience, then, of course, ordinary search engines will begin to solve the problem of how to find and show them to the user. If the audience behavior shows that the results seem more relevant to a significant proportion of users in a significant number of queries, data without taking into account user-dependent factors, then Yandex or Google will begin to give such results.
“To be better” in the context of this article does not mean “to be better at everything”. Yes, in many aspects our heroes are far from Google and Yandex (even Bing is far away). But on the other hand, each of these services gives the user something that the giants of the search industry cannot offer.
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