Time to stop using Google?
Is it time to stop using Google?
I've always been a devoted "Googler" from the very first time I used their search engine a few years ago. However, after reading this article I've decided to start exploring other optinos. I've found two decent engines: iXquick and perhaps this other one, Clusty. Google did refuse to hand over information to the government earlier this year but I don't like the idea of them storing that much of my personal data.
Re: Time to stop using Google?
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Originally posted here by JerrySmith[MvP]
Is it time to stop using Google?
I've always been a devoted "Googler" from the very first time I used their search engine a few years ago. However, after reading this article I've decided to start exploring other optinos. I've found two decent engines: iXquick and perhaps this other one, Clusty. Google did refuse to hand over information to the government earlier this year but I don't like the idea of them storing that much of my personal data.
Greetings JerrySmith[MvP] they all still collect your personal info. Whether or not they "delete" your IP. within a specified timeframe.
It is still up to them what they do with it.
From iXquick's privacy statement.
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Ixquick collects limited information each time you visit our site, so we can improve the overall quality of your online experience. We collect referral data, your IP address and browser and platform type, and register the date and time you visited the Ixquick.com site, your search terms, and the links upon which you choose to click. Like most standard Web site servers, we use log files to collect and store anonymous user information.
The use of the word "Limited" is nothing new. They still have your info. I don't see how they would be less likely than Google to divulge it.
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Edit- BTW welcome to AO!!!
Re: Time to stop using Google?
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Originally posted here by JerrySmith[MvP]
Is it time to stop using Google?
I've always been a devoted "Googler" from the very first time I used their search engine a few years ago. However, after reading this article I've decided to start exploring other optinos. I've found two decent engines: iXquick and perhaps this other one, Clusty. Google did refuse to hand over information to the government earlier this year but I don't like the idea of them storing that much of my personal data.
By saying you've found two decent search engines... what you mean is you've taken two from the article you linked to... and you probably haven't even tried them... unless you wrote the article and are spamming yourself... but I find that doubtful... Neither of those sites compare to google... I did a search for "Computer Defense"... on site had 13 million results, the other 33... google had 150 million.. Now you may say "no one looks at more than the first hundred"... I've looked into 2000+ for certain searches.. .to which you'll say "even so they all cover that many" To which I'd say they have "varing" degrees of decent results... and I don't think they compare to google's results... Although ixquick.com somewhat does because I'm pretty sure they actually search through google... For all we know they could be using the Google API key and running a search.
As for privacy... it really doesn't exist on the internet... From your single post, in under 5 minutes, I found blog postings by you, your ebay account, your favourite radio station... had I looked deeper based on those results I'm sure I could have found a great deal more... You can do the same for me and then some..
Something you might enjoy reading is http://www.lifehacker.com/software/t...ail-187113.php
I don't see google as that big of a concern in my life...
Especially when I watch someone walk around with their bank card, credit card, health card, drivers license, SSN/SIN, Birth Certificate and Car insurance paperwork in their wallet... Or women who carry all of the above + bank book, checkbook, passport and phone-number/address book... (With their pin numbers written on the front-page)... oh yeah.. and pictures of the family...
With the number of purse snatchings and pick pocketings that occur daily... it's more likely that crucial personal information will be stolen that way..
If you want to sit and search for Child Porn, How to best assassinate the president, 101 illegal things to do for fun, how to dispose of a dead body or whatever else you have in mind... that's your business... but if the government goes after Google for that personal data... I say let them... Who cares that Google has the data.... the question of "Why were you making those searches" is a better question to answer... If you have a legit answer for that... it doesn't affect you in the end.. but if you don't.. you may be in trouble.. and rightfully so...
My searches are all legal... I'm seldom looking online for instructions to make a nuclear weapon... so I have nothing to worry about.
Peace,
HT
Re: Re: Time to stop using Google?
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Originally posted here by HTRegz
My searches are all legal... I'm seldom looking online for instructions to make a nuclear weapon... so I have nothing to worry about.
Peace,
HT
Why not, exactly? Most mid-level to advanced physics books discuss how anyway ;)