Search results from Google search

Google owns youtube, among others. I find that youtube is annoyingly prominent in google search results.

Cindy Hamilton

I use google advanced search and have been eliminating hits that contain "pinterest" .. I don't know who owns pinterest - but it sure is prominent noise in my searches. " - pinterest " or similar in a normal google search might do the same thing < ? >

Also - sometimes I will add " edu " or " gov " to increase the chances of finding a more-useful hit. Clearing the browser cache regularly also gives them a little less to target you with. John T.

Google always pushes their paid ads to the top of the stack. I used to use Scroogle until Google shut them down. They stripped the ads and the difference in the hits was striking. They also were not tracking the user. It is getting harder to stay anonymous these days, virtually impossible for normal browsing.

This list is getting old but there are alternatives.

There's always Tor.

I actually prefer to not be anonymous for normal browsing because google is smart enough to work out that I like wikipedia and usually shows a wikipedia article on the first page except with medical stuff.

Do are you agreeing that that's what the Congressman meant, just the two (ever three?) paid ads at the top of the search list?

Besdies the lack of ads, what sort of differences were there?

Tracking doesn't bother me, but more importantly for me here, the Congresscritter didn't bring that up.

Are you agreeing that the Congresscritter was referring to the 2, maybe once in a while 3 ads at the top of the search list?

They're labeled ads, so I just don't see how they can be bad. Google search has very little advertising.

Most of the time, I don't want to buy one, I just want information. Wading through a page of ads to get there is cumbersome. Scroogle usually popped up what you were looking for right away. It was such a threat to Google's ad revenue that they specifically rewrote the front end of their search engine to kill them.

The fact that it totally anonymized the search was nice too if privacy means anything to you.

THere are alternatives to Ms. Google, with one of the favorites being "duck.com" (formerly duckduckgo.com).

It has the _HUGE_ advantage of not tracking your searches and NOT maintaining a search history.

It's still duck-duck-go in my browser - after typing duck . com

I'll give it another try - I tried it and Bing a few years ago - but went back to google.

Anyone remember savvy search ? it was the best - back in the yahoo and alta vista days .. John T.

It just looks that way because goggle filters out a lot of the conservative-right content.

Sounds good to me!

Google does too, nearly always on the first page of hits.

Which defaults to DuckDuckGo for searches. It can be amusing when you hit an Amazon page and the price is in Deutsche marks or guilders.

For further amusement we use TimeTrex for payroll management. I have no idea how it happened but when I logged in this morning the screens were in Magyar. I can hack my way through most Germanic or Romance languages but a Uralic language is out of my league. I'd be better off with Russian.

duck.com resolves to

Eyup. Something like six months ago [a] duckduckgo.com was able to acquire the shorter name.

I use it. I also dabble with SlimJet on a different machine.

To clarify, a DNS lookup for

A DNS lookup for

Clearly, duck.com does not resolve to duckduckgo.com, since resolving implies DNS. Instead, duck.com and

dig

dig duckduckgo.com

curl -v

• Rebuilt URL to:
  formatting link
• Trying 184.72.104.138...
• TCP_NODELAY set
• Connected to
  formatting link
  (184.72.104.138) port 80 (#0)

• Connection #0 to host
  formatting link
  left intact