The Best Private Search Engines: Keep Those Eyes Off You BySydney Butler-December 7, 2018 “3/3.1020.jpg” Can you imagine trying to use a search engine online? Major players like Google make it almost instantly easy to find relevant results on the Internet, but this has not always been so. We had engines like AltaVista before Google which used a rather rudimentary and slow method of searching. Providing results that were usually not what you were looking for, with twenty pages of proper hits hidden in. Google changes all of that with smart search algorithms that have made us accustomed to a much easier-to-use internet than before. The problem is that it comes with a price for that convenience. Because while you are using Google to search the net, YOU are also searching. Google tracks you over the net and remembers you. Using that information to sell, among other things, targeted ads. That is not the only issue. Since Google builds a profile of your searches and preferences, it also means you get personalized results of your searches. Which potentially means that you are stuck in an echo chamber for a single person. So is this just the sacrifice we’ve got to make on search results at Google level? The response turns out to be a resounding “no!” These search engines, which focus on privacy, bring you great search results but do not track you or store information about your activities.
“3/3.1021.jpg” This may be the most popular search engine with a focus on privacy out there. For Google users who don’t want to be tracked, DuckDuckGo has developed a reputation as the go-to alternative. DuckDuckGo’s philosophy is simple they don’t store any information that doesn’t track you, and only show ads based on what you’ve actually been looking for. So if you’re searching for “4 K TV,” you’ll see advertisements that are related to that term. All of a sudden you won’t see 4 K TV advertisements on every other page you visit. It’s dead easy to use and there are even browser extensions to integrate searching for DuckDuckGo within your browser. That’s certainly a quacking-good option!
“3/3.1022.jpg” Search Encrypt will tell you “better privacy by default than DuckDuckGo” directly from the bat. How true that depends on your perspective, but the approach to privacy is certainly different. While DuckDuckGo keeps it simple and just gives you a straight answer to your search terms without keeping a record of those terms Search Encrypt goes all out. They use a 256-bit encryption algorithm to conceal your terms of search from outsiders. It also deletes any information you’ve generated within 15 minutes. If the Search Encrypt extension is installed, it will even redirect any searches that target Google or Bing. Now there is something important about search encryption that you should know about. Malware companies like Malwarebytes have decided Search Encrypt is a hijacker for browsers. Search Encrypt explained this is false positive and that the browser is actually part of the protection system. I’ll leave it up to you to decide but Search Encrypt is definitely one of the most advanced from a technological point of view.
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“3/3.1024.jpg” Gibirumight looks a bit like a website from the 90s but its 128-bit search encryption is state-of – the-art and you will get totally uncensored results thanks to strict user data policies. Actually this is one of the older private search engines that first went online back in 2009. The mainstream internet community really knew or cared about most of these privacy issues a long time before. One really interesting feature is that you can actually click on a tab called “censored results” and see which pages you didn’t get through other search engines.