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At first glance, it might seem that there better than google only Yandex can, and even that is not a fact. These companies invest huge sums 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 look at our heroes.
What is this
This is a fairly well-known open source search engine. source code. 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 the ultimate privacy and privacy search. The system does not collect any data about the user, 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 this
All major search engines try to personalize search results based on data about the person in front of the monitor. This phenomenon is called "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 thematic google ads and "Yandex", based on your requests. DuckDuckGo makes it easy to find information on foreign languages: Google and Yandex prefer Russian-language sites by default, even if the query is entered in another language.
What is this
"" is a Russian metasearch engine developed by Moscow State University graduates Viktor Lavrenko and Vladimir Chernyshov. It searches for Google, Bing, Yandex and other indexes, and also has its own search algorithm.
The better
Searching through the indexes of all major search engines allows you to generate relevant results. In addition, "Nigma" divides the results into several thematic groups (clusters) and prompts the user to narrow the search field, discarding unnecessary or prioritizing. Thanks to the "Mathematics" and "Chemistry" modules, you can solve mathematical problems and request the results of chemical reactions right in the search bar.
Why do you need this
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. If you select the "English-language sites" cluster, you will receive search results in English only. Modules "Mathematics" and "Chemistry" will help schoolchildren.
Unfortunately, the project is currently not being developed, as the developers have shifted their activity to the Vietnamese market. Nevertheless, "Nigma" is not only not outdated, but in some things it still outperforms Google. Let's hope that development resumes.
What is this
not Evil - a system that searches for anonymous Tor networks. To use it, you need to go to this network, for example, by launching a specialized browser with the same name. not Evil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is LOOK (default search in the Tor browser, accessible from the regular Internet) or TORCH (one of the oldest search engines on 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
He is looking for where Google, Yandex and other search engines are denied access in principle.
Why do you need this
There are many resources on the Tor network that cannot be found on the law-abiding Internet. And as the authorities tighten control over the contents of the Web, their number will grow. Tor is a kind of Network within the Network: with its social networks, torrent trackers, media, trading platforms, blogs, libraries and so on.
YaCy
What is this
YaCy is a decentralized search engine that works on the principle of P2P networks. Each computer that has a primary software module, scans the Internet on its own, that is, it is an analogue of a search robot. The results obtained are collected in a common database, which is used by all YaCy participants.
The better
It is difficult to say here whether this is better or worse, since YaCy is a completely different approach to organizing search. The lack of a single server and owner company makes the results completely independent of anyone'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 this
If you are a supporter of open source software and a free Internet that 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 although YaCy is not very useful in everyday life, it is a worthy alternative to Google in terms of the search process.
Pipl
What is this
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, 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 Lifehacker.com, TechCrunch and other publications.
Why do you need this
If you need to find information about a person living in the US, then Pipl will be much more efficient than Google. Databases of Russian courts, apparently, are inaccessible to the search engine. Therefore, he does not cope so well with the citizens of Russia.
What is this
Another specialized search engine. Searches for various sounds (house, nature, cars, people, and so on) in open sources. The service does not support requests in Russian, but there is an impressive list of Russian-language tags that you can search for.
The better
In the issuance of 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 this
If you need to quickly find the sound of a musket shot, the blow of a sucking woodpecker, or the cry of Homer Simpson, then this service is for you. And I chose this only from the available Russian-language queries. In English, the spectrum is even wider. But seriously, a specialized service implies a specialized audience. But will it come in handy for you too?
The life of alternative search engines is often fleeting. Lifehacker asked the former CEO of the Ukrainian branch of Yandex, Sergey Petrenko, about the long-term prospects for 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 the 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 in-demand 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 Tor search suddenly turns out to be in demand, that is, at least a percentage of the Google audience will need the results from there, then, of course, ordinary search engines will begin to solve the problem of how to find them and show them to the user. If the behavior of the audience shows that a significant proportion of users in a significant number of queries seem to have more relevant results, data without taking into account factors that depend on the user, 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 far from Bing). But each of these services gives the user something that the giants of the search industry cannot offer.
For two decades now, working in the media, I have observed the same phenomenon. Namely: some journalists are completely unwilling to master new technologies, and, it seems, are still nostalgic for typewriters.
And others, on the contrary, master new technologies with cosmic speed, ahead of the most notorious technologists. This text is for the second category.
We are all used to using the world's most popular search engine, Google, to find the information we need. There are billions of search queries on Google sites every day, available in about 200 languages - it is no coincidence that the main site Google.com is considered the most popular Internet resource. Yandex and Bing are also quite often used.
However, we must admit: the Google search engine is designed for the mass consumer, for those who in 99% of cases are more than enough for the first three pages of search results. But journalists are just those people who sometimes need to find something not too common, to delve deeply into the issue. However, even the most advanced search engine is not able to search equally well in blogs and in scientific articles, in digital images and cooking recipes. It is for this reason that there are many not too well-known search engines that specialize in some kind of "narrow" search, or are able to search where traditional search engines do not usually search. After all, universal search engines simply “do not see”, for example, web pages that no longer exist, or old versions of pages, content on social networks, pages that are deliberately closed to web spiders, etc.
So what can we use?
1. Answer the question
You can search for something by keywords or phrases, or you can ask a question in natural human language. It answers these questions Answers.com- a search engine that allows you to find answers to a huge number of questions. The search result is not a set of links, but articles from Wikipedia, Oxford University and other authoritative resources. You just have to ask in pure English.
2. Find what is no longer there
Today, almost every advanced Internet user knows how to use the Google or Yandex cache when he needs to view (and / or present as evidence) a recently deleted or modified page in its original form. Well, or see her as she was in certain moment time. However, there is a certain problem: such a cache is available for search results only for a relatively short time. This is understandable: the task of the search robot is to give out the most current version Internet resource.
However, sometimes you need to see a site the way it looked, say, a few years ago. For this, special search tools have been created - such as, say, a web service Wayback Machine. Its work is supported by the non-profit organization "Internet Archive", which since 1997 has been collecting copies of web pages and multimedia content posted on the Web. All of these copies, stored on multiple servers, are freely available to everyone. Wayback Machine allows you to find not only old version of the currently existing site, but also those web pages that have not existed for a long time - we are talking about closed sites. To date, the Internet Archive has already collected more than 366 billion pages, so you can find what you need with a very high probability.
3. Looking for a picture
Today, the vast majority of users who need to find some kind of photo or other graphic file use Google Images for this purpose. But still, the largest-search engine-in-the-world is “sharpened” for text search, and image search for it is only one of the additional services.
So, if you could not find what you need when Google help Images, it makes sense to use something specialized. For example, service picsearch. According to its creators, their brainchild has already indexed more than three and a half billion digital pictures.
Among the advantages of Picsearch is how multilingual user interface, as well as a full-fledged multilingual search, as well as a number of very practical filters, for example, the ability to search only for black and white or color images, images with a predominance of a particular color, search for "wallpaper" for the desktop, as well as faces or animated images.
A worthy alternative to Google Images can also be a search engine Everystock photo. On the one hand, it is much smaller - it contains "only" about 25 million images stored on online photo sites, including Flickr, Fotolia and Wikimedia Commons. However, as experts say, the results of her work are truly impressive. Most of the images found can be used for free, however, provided that the name of the photographer or copyright holder is indicated.
The search service for the content of images stands apart. Picollator. When you enter a query in most search engines offering search graphic files, you get results based on what text appears on the page, as well as filenames. Picollator works in a fundamentally different way, identifying what is shown in the pictures. It is clear that in this case search query should be formulated not as a word or phrase, but as a picture.
That is, to search, you should upload a photo to the server or provide a link to the site where it has already been uploaded. The search results will collect thumbnails of images similar to the uploaded photo. True, this service only works with photographs of people, and of good quality.
Unfortunately, too many journalists - especially those from journalism departments - are not "friends" with numbers. Many do not even see the difference between percentages and percentage points, which sometimes makes articles on economics turn into gibberish. One of the most famous "alternative" search engines can help them - wolframalpha .
In fact, this is an “encyclopedic” search engine, the task of which is to give answers to really difficult questions in such areas as mathematics, physics, medicine, statistics, history, linguistics and other fields of science. In essence, WolframAlpha is more of a colossal database, part of which has been converted into computational algorithms. It is thanks to them that the user of the search engine can get detailed information about how many grams of protein and calories are in a cup of cocoa, what is the average life expectancy in the US, France and Australia next year, or how an algebraic equation is solved.
However, in order to fully use WolframAlpha, you need to be good at English language. Unfortunately, the system does not support other languages.
5. Science again
The scientific world has always been somewhat closed to the uninitiated. Of course, it does not fence itself off from the general public with a steel wall, but in order to read scientific publications, delve into specific databases and see the results of experiments, Web users usually need to register and get special access. That is, ordinary search engines do not index this information - for them, almost all scientific articles belong to the category of the so-called "Deep Web" (Deep Web).
So if you really need to delve into scientific information that is incomprehensible to most uninitiated, use a specialized search engine. Like a search engine Complete Planet, which has access to more than 70,000 scientific databases and highly specialized search engines.
6. Looking for a person!
An ordinary search engine can be used only to search for information about a certain celebrity. If you need information that is not about a public person at all, then the chances of finding any data drop sharply. And then you need to use a specialized search engine.
The most famous of these systems is the search engine. Pipl. It searches for people's data across a range of public registries, online databases, services and social media. A big advantage of the Pipl service is that it works with Cyrillic as well, so it works quite well with Russian-language surnames as well.
Alternative - Russian service HelpRU.NET. He can find the address and home phone a resident of not only Russia, but also Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia and Moldova. In fact, this is a large electronic telephone directory of large cities of the post-Soviet countries, although it is far from complete. However, unlike many similar services, SpravkaRU.NET contains quite up-to-date databases. So if you have at least some information about relatives or the approximate place of residence of the object of your interest, then this will certainly help to find it. I note that the service often does not work.
The easiest way to find someone is to use a search engine Yandex.People. Checked: you won’t get a lot of information, but you will almost certainly find the person himself.
7. Blog Search
Over the past decade and a half, blogs have become not just a social and cultural phenomenon, but simply a bottomless source of a wide variety of information. Not always reliable and correctly presented, but often still very interesting. Specialized search for Russian-language blogs - service "Yandex.Blogs". No bells and whistles, just a working search.
8. Keep your search private
One of the outstanding developments of the 2010s is the anonymous search engine. DuckDuckGo. It is an open source search engine founded in September 2008. In his user agreement DDG emphasizes the confidentiality of user-provided data, non-recording and storage of user information, and non-spying on users.
In technological terms, DuckDuckGo differs from universal search engines in that it does not use a "filter bubble" (Filter bubble), that is, it does not take into account the user's past requests to determine what information is most interesting to him. DuckDuckGo by default uses the work between the client and the server over the HTTPS protocol, working on the RC4 encryption algorithm with a 128-bit key. Also, DDG Search Engine does not use cookies and does not store data about users' IP addresses, does not offer to log in, and by default encrypts transmitted data.
The anonymous search engine is the brainchild of programmer Gabriel Weinberg. He created DDG in 2008, deciding from the outset that it would not store user data because it contained too much personal information. “If you ask people about the importance of the privacy of their searches, they will say that it is very important, but at the same time, almost no one tries to make their searches anonymous,” Weinberg wrote on his blog. – Google stores not only the search queries of users, but also the IP addresses from which they accessed. It is a myth that Google must store all this information. Almost all the money they get is based on what the user types in the search bar.”
At first, DuckDuckGo was little known: back in early June 2013, it was processing only 1.7 million requests per day. But then there was a scandal: information about the PRISM program was made public in the USA - with its help, the US NSA gained access to the servers of companies, including the owners of the world's largest search engines - Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Shortly thereafter, the number of daily requests to DuckDuckGo exceeded 3 million per day and continued to grow rapidly.
This is a searchable database of the most popular dll libraries. The files are sorted alphabetically, there is a search function. The file you are looking for can be found even if only the approximate name of the library is known.
13. Search for medical information
Website Medpoisk.ru- a universal search engine that is designed to search exclusively on medical sites. Uses a search engine from Google. This is a practical tool not only for doctors, but also for anyone who needs an answer to any question in the field of medicine. How to treat this or that disease, what are the contraindications of this or that medicine, which doctor to contact. Also included in the search engine is a labor exchange for medical workers.
14. Space is our everything
Astronomical search service Astronet specializes in searching for information on sites related to astronomy and space exploration. In total, the database of the search engine contains about five hundred sites of astronomical subjects - sites of observatories, amateur pages, libraries of scientific literature, and the like.
In addition to the search function, the site has a lot of other useful services, including, for example, an English-Russian-English astronomical dictionary, a biographical guide with detailed information about all the scientists who contributed to the development of astronomy, a glossary of astronomical terms. There is also a handy star map that generates the position of the constellations, depending on the latitude and longitude of the observation point, as well as the time of day.
Of course, this is only a small part of alternative search services. And over time, some of them stop working, but new ones appear. The best minds are creating ever more advanced algorithms for selecting Internet search results. However, if you learn how to skillfully operate with the syntax of a search query, then Google, Yandex, Yahoo! and other "general purpose" search engines can produce results as good as alternative search engines.
Hello, dear readers of the site. Today we will talk about the growing popularity of the search engine.
Its main distinguishing feature from other popular search engines is that the user is not violated and when working with the “duck”, the so-called “clean” output is formed.
This is just a search, without unnecessary services and accounts. This was Google and Yandex at the dawn of their formation, when thoughts of profit did not overshadow the eyes of their owners.
With all this, DakDakGo is fraught with a lot of interesting things! What exactly? Read the article to the end and find out.
Search engine features
The world of search engines is not limited to Google and Yandex, there are also little-known search engines, which, however, also have the right to exist and even bypass the search giants somewhere. One of these is DakDakGo. Why?
- Just a search, nothing more.
- Confidentiality.
- Russian language support.
- Clean search results without spam, bubble filters and blocks.
- hybrid search.
- No ads.
- Blocking ad trackers.
- Detailed settings.
- Support for search operators.
- Bangs - direct search on sites with a good reputation.
- Quick answers.
- Friendship with Tor Browser.
- Browser extension.
- The presence of hot keys.
The duck was created from people and for people. It gives you a search without imposing too much, and also pleases with various convenient functions and personal settings, having mastered which you are unlikely to be able to work with another search engine with the same comfort.
But also there are some disadvantages:
- There is no support for Russian-language bans and quick replies.
- Lack of personalization sometimes hurts search.
By the way, if you are afraid for the modesty of the issuance compared to the market leaders Google and Yandex, then I hasten to inform you that DDG is a hybrid search engine and uses the search results of many systems, including Yahoo, Bing, Yummly, Yandex, Wikipedia and more than four hundred others.
The creators of the service themselves claim that the issuance best results and the greatest number of them is a priority for them. So the duck boasts a very diverse and large output.
Search without bells and whistles and with a Russian interface
Previously, Google was just a search engine, and modestly displayed search results on a blank page. But now he does not hesitate to shove advertising, impose additional services and registration in them. And also arbitrarily cut out “extra” pages from the search results and select them for us.
DuckDuckGo in this sense is much more democratic, and has remained the same tube young Google. An ascetic search engine without accounts, advertising, distortion of issuance and services. He just searches and does not impose anything.
The name DuckDuckGo was based on the name of a children's game - "Duck, Duck, Goose".
Confidentiality
All large quantity of users are giving preference to the "duck" because of the growing laws on the collection of user data.
search engine does not track and does not save your history and other data, provides you with search results in its original form, not passed through the so-called " bubble filters» - personalized issuance of only those resources that the search engine considers potentially interesting for a particular user.
Getting started with the DakDakGo search engine
Now that we have received a boost of motivation to explore this service, let's start working with it. By the way, here he is - Duck Duck Go. You can simultaneously try the chips that will be described here.
Let's start with the actual search itself, its search results page. Let's set a search query and consider what we can do with the issue.
The menu looks very ascetic, but still has all the features for easy searching. Let's start in order.
On the top bar of the menu we see the tabs " Web», « Images" And " Video". Actually, everything is standard - each tab is responsible for issuing content of the same name.
There is also a convenient opportunity to embed a pool of pictures or videos in the search engine interface. To do this, go to the images or video tab and click on the cross in the upper right part of the page as shown in the screenshot.
Now the pool of pictures or videos will modestly hang under the search bar. You can return to full-screen viewing mode by clicking on the "more pictures" or "more videos" button on the top right.
Three Useful Functions of DakDakGo
Now notice the little line below the tabs we just looked at. These are three very useful features, which often greatly facilitate the search.
First - region selection. With this setting, you can get search results locally in any region. This can be very useful when looking for information that is relevant to a particular location (for example, weather, places, or news).
To turn on the localization mode of issuance, click on the switch to the left of the country. Once clicked, it should turn blue and have a check mark.
To select a country, click on it and select the one you need from the list. You can also search by country.
The last function is relevance of information. She is responsible for filtering the issue by the time of publication. Useful when you need to find the latest news and publications.
Here, in principle, are all the tools for working with the issuance, but further is better - we still have branded duck chips and settings in stock.
Bangs
Dakdakgo can also please the user with branded features. It not only copies everything from competitors, but also offers its own useful features that make the search more accurate, faster and more convenient.
One such possibility is bangs - direct search straight from the duck on thousands of sites. The bottom line is that right in the search you can write a bang-word for a specific site that the DDG developers considered reliable, and go to it directly from the search engine.
You can try it yourself. Enter in the search bar Exclamation point. A menu of bang words will appear below the search bar, which will help you find the one you need. You can click on the word in the menu or type it yourself. After you can click the search button and get to the site page.
You can also put a space after the word and write a query. Then this request will be processed in the search for the site you entered. For example, Google will open with “ktonanovenkogo” already entered in its search string. That is, the template is such a "!bang request".
The duck, by the way, is not at all jealous of its users, and you have Yandex and Google service bangs at your disposal. So if you didn’t find what you need on DDG, you can instantly go from it to another search engine with the same request, simply by adding a bang before the request, for example “!g”.
Bangs are very convenient, you can immediately find a movie on the movie search or go to the site without extra clicks. Bangs on this moment more than 11 thousand, and among them there are many Russian-language portals. The entire list can be viewed.
Quick Replies at DuckDuckGo
There is one more useful opportunity— quick answers where you don't even have to click on links to find out the answer. True, quick answers, like questions, alas, the great and mighty does not quote, so you have to remember London is a capital of great Britain ...
The bottom line is that when you enter certain search queries DDG immediately below the search bar gives you the answer without having to navigate anywhere. So, for example, you can ask a duck to count an example, give a cheat sheet on a topic, or even play 2048 at all.
Quick answers will also please all specialists of different degrees of IT, as among the quick answers there are a lot of information blocks from programming and web development. Need color RGB palette or a table of ASCII codes? All this can be obtained without leaving the search engine page.
You can view the full list of quick replies sorted by category.
Search operators in DakDakGo
Search operators are an extremely useful tool when looking for information. They exist throughout the search elite and DuckDuckGo is no exception. Don't be intimidated by the name, it's actually just some keywords and characters that customize the search results, filter it.
For example, below we write the operator "site" and a colon, letting the system know that this is an operator, not a word. Next, enter the site address and after the space - the request. As a result, we get a search on the site. As you can see in the screenshot below, all results are articles from this blog that match the query.
Here is a list of search operators, all of which are used in the same way as the example above.
- "Images" - search for images only.
- "News" - search for news only.
- "Map:" - show the location on the map.
- "Site:" - search the site.
- "F:" - search for files of a certain format. The format must be entered after the colon, such as txt or pdf.
- "-" (indicating the word to be excluded). To search for content that does not contain the specified word, phrase. For example, you can give the query "bicycles - scooters". Then the search engine will return all pages where there is a mention of bicycles, but no scooters.
Hotkeys
Another very nice feature of DDG is hotkeys. This means that no mouse is required to control inside the duck, all actions can be performed using the keyboard. Below is a list of available commands:
- "j" - move down the results.
- "k" - flip the results up.
- "v" - view the selected link.
- "h" - quickly move to the line to enter a new request.
- "escape" - close the search bar.
- "t" - quickly move up.
- "m" - quickly select the first result from the list.
- "d" - start working with a specific site (which is highlighted).
DuckDuckGo search engine settings
Now that we have mastered the search tools, we can see what the duck offers the user in terms of personalization. And here everything is very nice, the settings are detailed enough to adjust the search engine to your preferences and habits.
Themes and anonymous saving of your settings
To customize the search engine, click on the three horizontal lines in the upper right.
The settings side menu will appear.
At the very top under the word "settings" there are four circles - these are DakDakGo themes. By clicking on "More themes" you will get two more design themes to choose from. The selected theme in the screenshot repeats the theme of Google - green addresses and blue headings.
You can also choose fashion dark theme, which is now being actively added to all sorts of services, such as YouTube and Skype.
A solid list of settings will open with four tabs General, Theme, Appearance and Privacy. Also pay attention to the right side of the window.
Despite the fact that, due to its privacy principles, the duck cannot ask you to create an account, it still saves your settings, which is certainly convenient. She does this with a secret phrase. Click on the "Save Settings" button. Next, come up with a passphrase that you will definitely not forget, and click "Save".
If your settings go wrong in the future, click Load Settings and enter your passphrase. All old settings will return.
Basic settings of the new search engine
Now, in fact, let's examine the settings themselves in order. Let's start with the first tab.
- Region - here you need to specify your default region. If you remember, we have already seen this setting in search results earlier. Here you need to specify what value will be set there with each new visit to the search engine.
- Language is the language in which the entire DuckDuckGo interface is presented. Selecting "Browser preferred language" means that the duck will adopt the language set in your browser.
- Safe search - again, in the settings, specify the default value for issuance.
- Quick Answers - Turn on and off the feature we used earlier. If you don't like the answers under the search bar, you can disable this setting.
We've already been on the Theme tab before, so let's go straight to the Appearance tab. Here is the opportunity to create own theme and change everything from font and color to icons and label placement. All settings are very unambiguous and I think it makes no sense to analyze them.
Let's move on to last tab settings - "Privacy".
- HTTPS is a protocol for transferring data between you and a website using encryption. This means more security.
- GET requests - the link will contain the search query.
- Video playback - it is possible to play the video on the DDG page where the video is taken from, or ask you each time how to play the video.
- Redirect - Older browsers lack some search security standards. This tweak will fix that.
Well, that's all, we are done with the settings. Now you can save them as described above.
DuckDuckGo browser extension
In addition, you can also install an extension for your browser that can provide information about the safety of working with the site, track and block its trackers (tracking technologies that store information about the user; the most famous example is cookies.), connection protocol and give an overall assessment.
Also, the extension automatically sets DDG as the default search engine, but this can be changed in the browser settings without deleting this add-on.
To install, go to the main page of DuckDuckGo. At the top right there should be a window offering to install the extension.
If you do not have this window, enable the options that offer installation in the settings on the "general" tab.
Store extension opens DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials also click install.
When the browser add-on is installed, it will appear in the tray (top right immediately after the address bar) as DDG logo. Click on it and a menu will appear.
At the top of the window is a search, directly from which you can enter a search query. A little to the right will be the “whitelist” settings - a list of sites whose trackers do not need to be blocked. By default, trackers on all sites are blocked by this extension.
When opened, the extension shows information about the site you are on at the time of opening. By clicking on the “Bad Privacy Practices” button, you will receive a list of site atrocities due to which the extension considered it unsafe. If there are none, then the security is marked as "Good" and the button will be green.
Let's also look at the example of a site with trackers. Click on the "5 Trackers Blocked" button.
Here you can find trackers for site analytics, advertising trackers and others.
All of them are blocked. If you find them harmless, you can whitelist the site and they will not be blocked. You can do this by clicking on the button opposite the inscription "Site Privacy Protection" in the green rectangle. The extension will notify you that the site has been whitelisted.
If you want to edit the list, click "Manage Whitelist" right below the green box. Next, click the crosses next to those sites whose trackers you want to block in the future.
At the bottom of the DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser window is a list of the biggest data collectors, led by Google.
Click "All Tracker Networks" at the very bottom for more details.
At the top, the duck writes that 69% of the sites we visited had trackers. Below is the top 10 most unsafe sites.
DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser app for iOS and Android
The application is all the same functionality that we received on a PC with a browser extension, only on your mobile device. It can be installed on both iOS and Android.
It's called "DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser". In an online store (Google Play or App Store), just enter “duck”, find this application at the top of the issue and install it.
After installation, open the program on your mobile gadget. In fact, this is the most common browser with DuckDuckGo search. All bans and quick replies work here too. The language of the application is English.
Let's immediately go to the settings and see what's there.
- Autocomplete suggestions - an option responsible for autocomplete your queries.
- Privacy Protection Whitelist - whitelist, the same as it was on the PC. List of sites that should not be blocked by trackers.
- Application Lock - if you have a password on your phone or TouchId, the application will require it when entering, if the option is active.
- Use DuckDuckGo in Safari - Make duck the default search for the Safari browser.
- Add DuckDuckGo to your dock - add an icon to your desktop.
Now let's go to some site and study the interface of the application.
There will be an address bar at the top and an icon with a security rating to the left of it. Click on it and we will see a painfully familiar interface that completely repeats the functionality of the PC version.
To the right of the address bar there will be three dots, by clicking on which you will receive a menu with possible actions on the site.
In order:
- Update.
- New inset.
- Add to whitelist.
- Add to bookmarks (reading list).
- Share.
- Complain about the site.
- Settings.
Further to the right is the reading list and tabs. Everything is just like in a normal browser.
Total
That, in principle, is all that I wanted to tell you about this interesting search engine. To sum up, the impression of DuckDuckGo remains very good. The search engine is really convenient and safe. It is definitely worth attention, but it is up to you whether to give preference to it among other search engines.
To consolidate the material, I suggest to look a short video about the search engine DuckDuckGo:
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The fact that major search engines collect statistical data about their users has long been no surprise to anyone. These are the realities of the modern Internet, the collection of statistics is necessary, this is one of the conditions for using the opportunities global network to run a business, but perhaps it would be naive to assume that search engines limit their goals to displaying targeted ads. Coming to the address Google accusations of misuse of the collected statistical information, alas, are not uncommon.
And although not all accusations have a real basis, the fact that scandals flare up on this basis from time to time makes the most cautious users think about finding alternatives to the same Google. There is no lack of them, but there is one small "But". Let's start with the fact that security and anonymity are not the same thing. Security implies, first of all, the most reliable encryption of requests, while anonymity should be understood as a refusal to collect, store and process statistical data of Internet users, not to mention the transfer of information to a third party.
Unfortunately, many search engines that position themselves as anonymous are somewhat inferior in terms of encryption strength. Google And Yandex, although they are increasingly stepping on their heels. The second difference, which is not always in favor of alternative search engines, is the incomplete delivery of search results, whatever one may say, search algorithms Google in a number of indicators they surpass the algorithms of less popular competitors, although this difference, we must pay tribute to their creators, is not so noticeable.
This search engine does not need a special introduction, it is known to everyone who, at least to a small extent, asked questions of anonymity on the Internet. Created in 2006, the search engine began to quickly gain popularity due to the high level of security, privacy and relevance of the issue.
There is an opinion that it was the relevance of the issuance that allowed to escape in the top, which is hard to disagree with, because the search engine is looking for no worse than Google And Yandex.
Among the advantages It should be noted:
Using SSL/PFS encryption.
The servers are physically located in the USA.
Inclusion in your own search index of the results of different search engines.
IP and statistical data is not collected.
Does not store user ID in cookies.
It has a wide range of behavior and security settings.
Offers anonymous cloud services.
Supports the Russian language and changing themes.
An anonymous search engine that proudly calls itself the most discrete in the world. Until 2016 it was a separate project Ixquick- an anonymous search engine created by the same developer. In 2016, the company combined both solutions into one, borrowing the name for it from the second project. By functionality and features close to , but unlike the latter, it uses only its own search engine.
Advantages :
SSL/PFS encryption is used.
Cookies are only used to store Startpage settings.
The search engine does not collect statistical data and does not track the IP address.
Supports search proxies.
The search engine is accessible from the Tor network.
The presence of the EU certificate of confidentiality.
The servers are physically located in the Netherlands.
Flexible search settings.
Ability to change themes.
Major but non-critical drawback - lack of Russian language support for the interface. But among the languages of issuance, Russian is available.
Lukol
A little-known alternative search engine in Runet that claims to be anonymous. Search results are borrowed from Google, but displays them on the page passing through proxy. Shows thumbnails in search results. Few pluses:
No personal data is collected.
Minimalistic interface.
HTTPS protocol support.
A proxy is used to display search results.
Otherwise Lukol inferior to other anonymous search engines. Russian language is not supported, files cookies used to analyze traffic and display ads, settings appearance and behaviors are completely absent.
Like Lukol does not have its own search engine, it borrows data from the indexes of other search engines, which does not prevent it from positioning itself as an anonymous search engine, which it is.
He acquired the status of anonymous thanks to the following features:
The search engine does not collect personal data of the user and does not save his IP address.
Uses PFS encryption.
Data exchange between the client and the server is performed via the HTTPS protocol.
Supports sorting and advanced search.
The user ID is not stored in cookies.
Disadvantages - overloaded interface that does not support Russian.
Yacy
Far from the best search engine, but the most unusual. Yacy is partially decentralized, using peer-to-peer networks like torrents. Search index Yacy general, but it is formed by local crawlers - search robots installed on the computers of the project participants. Such an unusual approach makes it possible to generate search results independent of intermediaries, which are not censored by anything or anyone.
But it also has its biggest drawback. Yacy- firstly, the search results are poor, and secondly, the search engine works more than slowly. In addition, for the full use Yacy The computer must have a special software. In no case do we encourage you to use such tools by installing the module Yacy you will surely be disappointed with the results. Inclusion by us Yacy to the list of anonymous search engines, it is rather a desire to demonstrate how original the ideas of creating alternative search engines that claim to be anonymous can be.
Information about users of the global web is not only of interest to intelligence agencies, but also has quite tangible commercial value.
Such data also includes the nature of the requests of a particular user. Therefore, Internet giants such as Google and Yandex carefully collect and analyze information. Not everyone likes it, which is why the question of finding alternative options becomes relevant. Such an alternative is search engines without prohibitions, which do not hide anything, in particular, blocked sites. So far, they are not very well known to a wide range of Internet users, so we present to your attention the most common programs.
NotEvil: Popular Dark Web Search Engines Gain Popularity
For a long time, DarkNet was used mainly by hackers, but now more and more conventional resources are moving into this hard-to-reach part of the global web, primarily due to the increased fight against pirated content and blocking due to violations of the law.
To find something on the DarkNet, the NotEvil search engine is used, which searches the anonymous Tor network. The advantages include the absence of advertising, the non-use of ip and user cookies.
start page
For Internet users who seek to remain anonymous, discreteness is a critical indicator. According to this characteristic, there is no equal "StartPage", which is confirmed by the EC certificate. The service has several advantages:
- complete data safety - the servers are located in the Netherlands, which means that they cannot be seized by law enforcement agencies of other countries;
- no cookies are used for tracking;
- official sites of StartPage search engines are accessible from the Tor network;
- the ability to view the contents of Internet resources using the "Proxy" function, so you can freely view blocked pages.
DuckDuckGo
This American software is in demand ahead of many traditional information retrieval systems.
More than 10 million requests are made daily with its help. In terms of functionality, it repeats the two previous options, the only difference is that a proxy is not used.