[thelist] tip: use other search engines

Mark Groen evolt at markgroen.com
Wed Jan 25 09:36:48 CST 2006


On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 11:25 +0000, kasimir-k wrote:
> <tip type="search engine use" author="kasimir k">
> 
> As a certain search giant who had promised to do no evil has now taken 
> the step to the dark side and started auto censorship, it is time to 
> review our search habits. It's not only about not using evil-doer's 
> services, but also about getting wider view on the web.
> 
> Try alternatives, like http://www.teoma.com/ or http://www.yahoo.com/ 
> and meta crawlers like http://vivisimo.com/ or http://www.dogpile.com/

All of the above censor for China, Google was just the last, (and most
recognizable name), to do this in the name of the almighty dollar, they
gotta make sales eh.

If you really want to surf anonymously you need to use a proxy. Get
something like TOR with PRIVOXY instead.
-- 
cheers,

        Mark




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