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i already had some concerns over political interference in Google, and had started checking out Yahoo again..

i have found that Yahoo is actually really cool these days as a search engine, and i find it better than Google for image searching..

and i read this by fractalicious in What is the cambium of a tree or plant? - The Ethnobotanical Garden - Welcome to the DMT-Nexus post#4
..now, [Edit] i'm not sure what is being talked about here, so hopefully it's a false alarm..
I am seeing an ever increasing campaign of deciding that a very specific group of words will be persecuted for being something undesirable, by Google

Mimosa Hostilis Root Bark and MHRB are right in with stuff like kiddy porn.

Maybe if these are less used they won't get so much noteriety from undesirables.

I have emails that clearly state that listings on the internet with these words are banned in no uncertain terms.

Google stores has actually banned these keywords, I guess this is nothing new since banning certain search terms has been done in china, syria etc etc etc.

Google has this huge business of doing statistics on google search terms and putting a dollar value on them to advertise,called cost per clicks, and this same technology helps them ban block things they deem undesirable. Fortunately they are not going as far as attacking the plants name directly just specific products made from it. Well so much for our freedoms.
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..so, i'm encouraging myself to diversify again in the search world..
 
..actually there's no problem googling MHRB..so i'm not sure what fractaclicious means..hopefully this isn't happening..

..and i must say, the Google exec, at least a few years ago, were highly positive and progressive..:)

if you haven't seen this talk by a grinning Rick Doblin (Maps head) on psychedelics for the execs at google, i highly recommend it..it discusses recent medical research with these compounds..
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I dislike Yahoo because I don't want to be bothered by their news selection. Also they don't have HTTPS support (or at least I didn't found it right now).

With privacy in mind, you might want to check out Startpage (Google results but a different privacy policy), ixquick or DuckGoDuck.

I use mostly Startpage since I feel that the results for some more obscure searches are better than DGD's.

duckduckgo.com

DuckDuckGo Privacy Policy

We don’t track you. That’s our Privacy Policy in a nutshell.
duckduckgo.com duckduckgo.com
en.wikipedia.org

Startpage.com - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
 
DuckDuckGo has been my trusted search engine for some time now. I agree very much with their policies towards privacy and recommend them highly.

duckduckgo.com

DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.

The Internet privacy company that empowers you to seamlessly take control of your personal information online, without any tradeoffs.
duckduckgo.com duckduckgo.com
 
i honestly can't stand yahoo

their news section and homepage in general is just facepalm after facepalm of bull that reminds me of how twisted the media and society can be
 
universecannon said:
i honestly can't stand yahoo

their news section and homepage in general is just facepalm after facepalm off bull that reminds me of how twisted the media and society can be
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I agree. If you took the brain of a single caterpillar or worm and poured it into the heads of the entire yahoo (cnn and and and... news service) staff that their intelligence would be improved by about 1,000,000 times.
 
a1pha said:
DuckDuckGo has been my trusted search engine for some time now. I agree very much with their policies towards privacy and recommend them highly.

DuckDuckGo — Privacy, simplified.
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^^ Same here.

For in-depth specific searches I use duckduckgo. Dont know why but in some cases its algorithm lets me find better info than google. Maybe due to google's "filters" on "sensitive" topics? For general searches I use startpage. For personalized bubble searches, say for finding something in my local region, I use plain ol' google itself.

It's a shame google stores your search records. It does let you delete them in your profile under dashboard. But Google states that it keeps them on a deeper level for advertising purposes non the less. I believe this might harm google in the long run as more people are becoming privacy aware. But google knows this (it knows everything), hence they made Dashboard, and I wonder what they will change (innovate) in the future regarding privacy.

As for google vs yahoo. I lately read an article that the US government asked google, yahoo and bing for search history info of specific people (or ip adresses). yahoo and Bing happily gave out info requested. While google put on a fight in court. This shows google has more backbone than the rest (again, google knows what people want). Non the less, Google stores all your info, while Startpage and duckduckgo don't.

In any case, I would never use Yahoo (with it's outdated screaming banners)
 
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I lately read an article that the US government asked google, yahoo and bing for search history info of specific people (or ip adresses). yahoo and Bing happily gave out info requested. While google put on a fight in court. This shows google has more backbone than the rest (again, google knows what people want).
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..that's good to know..
must admit i still mainly use google..
 
I've been using Startpage for the last week or so, and must say it's been a little hard to break away from the nice clean formatting that google uses, but really finding Startpage a change I should have made long time ago.

I use tin eye and google images for reverse image searches; I'm a compulsive hoarder of digital images.😁
 
I think that I will start using other search engines. Google and Gmail keep asking me for my full name. Kind of weird. I'd rather not have my name attached to my searches.
 
I switched to Startpage...it's pretty good.

After delving into Google Dashboard, I was dismayed at how much info they hold and store.
Much of it can be turned off and deleted but not enough.
 
Yeah I hated the way that google would keep me signed into the dashboard at the top, whether I asked it to or not; I had to keep signing out of it. And that was after I had gone through all the privacy settings to make sure it didn't do things like that.

It's like days would pass and I'd suddenly realised I'd been signed in under my gmail address and now everything I searched for in google and youtube were now tied to not just my IP but now my email address as well.
 
What's with all the big search engines filtering porn content ?
I'd rather have my kids stumble across a porn website than watch an endless string of murders on TV.

I feel like I've been grounded for something I haven't even done. What gives them the right to decide what I can and cannot look at in the privacy of my own home. If I didn't have a few tricks up my sleeve I'd have to log in and change settings just to watch a movie of Margaret Thatcher having sex with a great dane. :love:

This big brother shit is going way too far, most of the free email providers now want phone numbers and all sorts of other ID too.

You can't even add search engines to firefox anymore without a jumping through many hoops that weren't there a few years ago on some OS's.

The internet is being shut down and crippled before our eyes and no-one cares. It was a big issue when China did it, now it's happening to the rest of the world an no-one has the balls to speak up.

Where does it all stop ?
 
The NSA actually made a powerpoint presentation on how much they like Yahoo due to how easy it is to compromise.

Use duckduckgo.com (or their onion site at 3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion), disconnect.me, searx.me or startpage. Anything else is mining your data, tracking you and selling that info to marketing companies (and whoever else will pay them).
 
You could take a extra step from say duckduckgo or another privacy oriented search setup (and if you have a linux distro) you could host searx locally or you could on say an openssh server/client and set up on there.

searx parses from all the major search engines, has good functionality, privacy, open source etc

just make sure you're running a vpn or tor
 
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