Anonymous search engines. How to find something that Google won't even look for


The search engine is one of the key layers of the Internet, along with content and the browser. "Yandex" search engine or similar systems(“Google”, “Bing”, DuckDuckGo and others) allow the user to search for information in World Wide Web, formulating a request.

The job of a search engine is to find all documents, pages, videos, that is, all content, for this query (keyword or phrase).

Which search engine is the best? Are there alternative options, something other than Google and Yandex? Which Internet search engine is more suitable for scanning English-language sources or, for example, music? This is exactly what the article will discuss.

Rating: market leaders

If we talk about the world as a whole, then Google search engine is the most popular search engine. The corporation occupies almost 70% of the market. The second position in the ranking is occupied by Bing (share - 12.26%). The Baidu system is fighting for second place (6.48% as of September 2015). From time to time they change places.

So, for example, in 2014, the “forces” were distributed differently: the first place was occupied by Google search engine with 68.69%, the second by Baidu (17.7%), the third by Bing with a market capitalization of 6, 22%.

But global data is very generalized. Which search engine is the best?

In China, for example, a very small percentage of the population scans with Google; the majority uses domestic system Soso. IN South Korea most of the residents use own development- Internet search engine Naver. However, in the last few months the number of requests in this system has begun to decline rapidly.

In Japan and Taiwan, users are the most likely to use Yahoo!

Rating: Russian-language systems

Which search engine is the best? In Russia, search engine rankings are not at all similar to the global ones. The market leader in the Russian-language segment of the Internet is Yandex, which is used by more than 55% of users.

In second place is Google with a result of 37.6%. According to the LiveInternet service, the coverage of Russian speakers search queries on the World Wide Web was distributed as follows:

  1. Universal search engines: Google (37.6%), Bing (0.3%), Yahoo! (0.1%).
  2. English-speaking and international (AskJeeves, for example).
  3. Russian-language search engines: Yandex (56.2%), Mail (5.3%), Rambler (0.5%).

DuckDuckGo

A conversation about alternative search engines should start with the DuckDuckGo search engine. This is a fairly well-known and widespread system with open source code. DuckDuckGo servers are located in the United States of America. The search results are quite extensive, since the system uses not only its own algorithms, but also the results of some other sources, for example, Wikipedia, the Bing search engine and Yahoo!

DuckDuckGo search engine provides maximum safety personal information user, privacy and confidentiality. The system does not collect any data about users, does not store history and limits the use of cookies as much as possible.

The difference between DuckDuckGo is that this system does not personalize search results, as other systems do. In Google or Yandex, for example, the user sees only information that is consistent with his preferences. But DuckDuckGo creates a real picture and allows you to get rid of obsessive specific advertising. The search service easily searches for information in foreign languages, while Yandex and Google by default give preference to Russian-language sources, even if the query is entered in English, German or another language.

The system allows you to customize the interface: you can change colors, fonts, links and other parameters in just a few clicks.

This search engine is still far from the giant Google, but the duckling is developing, so it is quite possible that in the future DuckDuckGo will take one of the leading positions. The team has created an excellent product that provides an anonymous, fast and functional search that deserves the user's attention.

NotEvil

This is a system that searches by anonymous Tor networks. The search engine is preinstalled in the browser of the same name. Why is notEvil better? It “goes” where Google or Yandex search engines cannot reach. In general, there are a lot of resources on the Tor network that cannot be visited on the “regular” (law-abiding) Internet. This is a kind of platform within the network with its own social platforms, torrent trackers, media, blogs, shopping centers, forums, libraries and so on.

By the way, notEvil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is also Look, which is available by default in the same Tor browser, and TORCH is one of the oldest search engines in anonymous network.

YaCy

The free search engine YaCy is a completely different approach to organizing searches on the World Wide Web. The system operates on the P2P principle. This means that each computer on which the module is installed independently scans the Internet, and then all the results obtained are collected in single base, which can be used by all YaCy users.

The system is completely independent, autonomous, and ensures the anonymity of each user. YaCy will suit supporters open internet, which is not influenced by large corporations and government agencies.

In everyday life, the search engine is not very useful yet, but in the future it will be a worthy alternative“Google” even from the point of view of organizing the information search process.

Pipl

Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person. The developers claim that the search engine’s algorithms search for people more efficiently than Google or Yandex, which are widespread throughout the world.

Priority sources are profiles in in social networks comments, lists of participants, databases where various data about people are published, for example, databases of court decisions. But there is also a drawback. Not available for Pipl Russian bases data, so it will only be useful for finding information about US citizens.

FindSounds

Which search engine is the best? If you need to find music or sounds, then, of course, FindSounds is the best. This is a specialized search engine with a list of tags. Here you can select the desired audio file format or quality. All search results are available for download.

Wolfram|Alpha

This system does not return pages that contain needed by the user information, but the finished result. For example, maps, graphs, tables, short answers. The service is ideal for calculating data and searching for specific facts. The search engine does not understand all queries yet, but is constantly evolving.

With Wolfram|Alpha it is convenient, for example, to compare parameters for setting up a camera, smartphone or laptop. Also calculate the level of alcohol in the blood (the system asks the user for weight and height, the amount drunk, time, and then tells how long it will take for the alcohol to be completely eliminated from the body).

The tool can convert shoe and clothing sizes, count calories, view exchange rates, or tune a musical instrument.

Dogpile

Dogpile displays results from all common search engines at once. The service uses an improved algorithm and, as the developers assure, generates the best results on the Internet. In addition, there are few advertisements. You can try using Dogpile if necessary information is in no way found in standard Google or Yandex.

BoardReader

This system searches for information on forums, surveys, question and answer services, social communities, narrowing the search field to social platforms. You can set filters: language and publication date, site name, etc.

The search engine can be useful to advertising specialists who are interested in the opinion of the audience.

Finally

Often alternative search engines are fleeting. They appear as quickly as they die. Majority alternative systems Today they specialize in a narrow niche or test an original algorithm in generating search results.

In the context of describing alternative search engines, the criterion “better” does not at all mean “better in everything.” Each of the services listed above provides specific user something that is not in Google or Yandex. In any case, check out alternative options(against the background that the system seems to be practically monopolized by search giants) is interesting and useful to every user.

In 2017, when the Internet contains millions of terabytes of information and every user's movement on the Internet is recorded, there is no way to do without anonymous search engines. After all, it is very important for all of us to get to the necessary data as quickly and as safely as possible. But do our dear readers know exactly how search engines translate entered characters into code? Do you realize that all requests immediately go to the marketing departments of corporations?

The principle of operation of conventional search engines in 2017: anonymity at zero

Google

Let's go to Google search and see how it displays a link to a site, for example, whoer.net:


Yandex search

And this is how Yandex does it:

As you can see, it’s not very obvious. In fact, this was done on purpose, and the typing is nothing more than a script that will process the “click” on the link and remember the user’s action.
Today on our website we will talk about anonymous search engines that do not “pollute” the search with unnecessary scripts and do not store data about your search queries.

The most popular anonymous search engine for 2017 is DuckDuck, which anonymous browser Tor is set as the default search engine.

DuckDuck is also available for selection in Firefox browsers and Opera. The private search engine is famous for the fact that it does not use scripts in links and does not display advertising and viral sites in search results. DuckDuckGo allows the user to specify in the request special signs and symbols. And, as we have already said, the search engine does not monitor user actions.

Displaying query results in the anonymous search engine DuckDuck

As you can see, there are no hidden behavioral scripts here, but only a direct link!

Benefits of DuckDuckGo

One more positive thing The DuckDuckGo system can be considered to have full support for the https protocol. For now, this setting is disabled at the first user request, but it can be easily activated through the convenient main menu of the search engine. After execution of this action all searches will undergo additional encryption.

IxQuick is called the most confidential search engine in 2017.

The servers of this search engine are “equipped” with a powerful metasearch system. This means the following: after a search request, IxQuick displays results from a dozen search engines at once, combining them in its search window and assigning each link a unique rating, which is used for ranking.
The screenshot above shows that the main queries are taken from Google, so you don’t have to worry about the relevance of the results.

Privacy settings in the anonymous search engine IxQuick

Despite all the production capacity, no “surveillance” is carried out on users; moreover, users’ IP addresses are not even recorded. However, each user can allow their search settings to be saved on the anonymous search engine server in the form of cookies, which will either be deleted in automatic mode once every three months, or updated every time you visit home page IxQuick.

Pros and cons of IxQuick

A huge advantage of IxQuick is the metasearch associated with the anonymity of queries that search robot“sweeps” using a complex network of data redirection from the original search engine to the user.
Among the disadvantages of the IxQuick anonymous search, we can only note the fact that there is no Russian language in the interface.


Already from the screenshot, an attentive reader can conclude that StartPage is a clone of the anonymous search engine IxQuick. That’s right: the history of this project originated earlier than IxQuick, but despite the fact that the site did not analyze or save the user’s search results, nevertheless, it lost the competition and was soon bought out by a more powerful rival.
However, this site is still working, so we can recommend using a combination: in IxQuick, configure Bing as the main query provider, and in StartPage, set Google search as the default. This way you will get double anonymous search, easily comparing the results of your search data.

The Yandex and Google companies storing great amount user data, almost everyone knows about you. But there is at least four alternatives to the main Runet search engines that respect your privacy.

IN Lately smart contact lenses for diabetics, giant balloons dispensing from the stratosphere wireless Internet, And Google robots blow up news feeds. The corporation earns money for the development of these concepts from products for searching online information - including advertising. A small search window tells Google and Yandex about everything that interests users. For example, in our test account, created in May 2006, stores more than 23,000 queries that were entered into the search form over the entire existence of the account. For your account, you can view them at www.google.com/history. Google and Yandex know so much about us that it becomes uneasy. Especially if we assume that intelligence agencies may also have access to this data. However, there is a way to avoid such “espionage”. We tested four alternative search engines that care about user privacy.

Like Google, DuckDuckGo system lives comfortably off advertising, however, when creating advertising blocks, it takes into account not the user’s request history, but keywords search query. Along with its own search index, DuckDuckGo uses Google help, Yahoo, Bing and YouTube, diligently respecting the privacy of user data.


Another alternative is ixquick Startpage, which uses successful Google search results to build your own search index. Startpage sends about five million searches per day to Google.


We also tested the eTools metasearch engine, which accesses a dozen and a half other search engines, including both famous and little-known products such as Fastbot. Finally, we examined the capabilities of Yacy, which uses an open peer-to-peer network for searching and distributes the index across user computers.

Not all encryption is secure


Secure web searching begins with an encrypted transmission of the request. Using the SSL Server Test service developed by Qualis SSL Labs, we checked how encryption occurs and whether it occurs at all. This service quickly found its shortcomings: eTools and Yacy do not automatically create secure SSL connections. To do this, the URL in eTools must start with “https”, and in Yacy you must activate the use of the HTTPS protocol in the settings. Search engines DuckDuckGo, Startpage, and for several months now even Google itself has been doing a much better job of this task. DuckDuckGo was noted for having the most reliable encryption (RSA 4096 bit) among the tested systems. His rivals use keys half as long (however, they will be considered safe for a long time).

An even more important criterion than key length is support for SSL updates with the PFS (Perfect forward secrecy) property. PFS is protection against recording of an encrypted session by an attacker or intelligence agency. PFS provides support for all search engines up to Yacy, but eTools does not support all popular browsers.

The big difference between Google and its competitors is how it processes user data. Search history, IP address, personal data - all these are alternative Google search engines, which we're talking about in the article, ignored. They save persistent cookies only if they change standard settings- for example, if the DuckDuckGo language or Startpage interface design is switched. None of the alternative search engines use the user ID in cookies - unlike Google, which processes the data sent from the browser with each request and stores it. And to process dynamic IP addresses Google uses numerous persistent ID cookies to accurately identify the user.

However, one of the search engines still made a mistake. The eTools service uses session cookies, necessary for user authentication using provider data. You can still turn a blind eye to this, but transferring tracking cookies to a third party raises concerns. Thus, during testing during a regular search in eTools, we identified cookies from the marketing company TradeDoubler, which is unacceptable.

Websites usually “see” which page you came to it from, for example when you clicked on a link in Google search. To avoid sharing this data, DuckDuckGo and Startpage offer an easy-to-manage proxy mode. Thus, Startpage almost always displays a “View by Ixquick Proxy” link next to the regular search results. By clicking on it, you will receive information from the site anonymously - the Startpage robot will go to the page, download it and present it to you.

In a direct comparison, it quickly becomes clear why Google's service is the most popular: it offers top scores search, presented in a convenient form. When you enter topical queries, this search engine displays online broadcasts and feeds latest news. Helps with route planning Google Maps, Google responds to queries about the weather with elegant graphics, but in the interface of other search engines, getting to the treasured information takes a long time and is difficult.

CONCLUSION. All anonymous search services, with the exception of Startpage and DuckDuckGo, do not compare to Google when it comes to search quality. But the winner of the Startpage test does not save information about search queries and the user. By some criteria, DuckDuckGo is not far behind. The eTools metasearch engine ranked in the middle without much praise. The Swiss supplier does not excel in maintaining confidentiality, and the comfortable search and quality in many ways leaves much to be desired. Yacy currently only impresses with its amazing serverless technology. In practice, the search is too “flat”, slow and prone to errors.


TEST DETAILS


Anonymous web search



In the search results, Startpage displays a link “View by Ixquick Proxy”, through which you can access the site of interest while maintaining anonymity. This is achieved by hiding the IP address: the search engine robot downloads information from the site and then sends it to the user who made the request.

Tracking cookies



In the metasearch engine eTools, we picked up tracking cookies from TradeDoubler, an online marketing services provider. Concerns about privacy did not seem to interest the system.

Unique user ID



Google supplies cookies with a unique user ID. With its help, the search engine recognizes the user and can associate the received data with a specific visitor.

Low search quality



Alas, here all anonymous search engines are inferior to Google. DuckDuckGo, for example, does not display a link to the official website of the auto giant Mercedes on the first page of search results when requesting “Mercedes c-class”.

GOOGLE ANONYMIZATION


Disabling Search Logging



At google.com/history you will find the history of your web searches stored by Google. Click on the right top corner drop-down menu next to the gear icon and select Settings. If you click on the word “completely” in the phrase “completely or partially delete saved queries and addresses of visited sites,” then all addresses of visited sites and saved search data will disappear. Then click on “Disable” so that future requests will not be logged.


If you use any Google services, then for searching it is better to set additional browser and do not enter data from your Google account into it. In this case, it will not hurt to activate Protected View mode, which prevents saving cookies. Chrome users need to select “New window in incognito mode” from the settings menu to do this.

Today we will talk about the best anonymous search engines for regular internet, the so-called Clearnet, which every person uses.

I will tell you about all the existing search engines that offer the user more anonymity and privacy than the popular and well-known search engines.

At the beginning we will talk about key points choosing an anonymous search engine. You will learn what a user who does not want to leave traces on the network should pay attention to. After which there will be a review of each individual search engine.

We will also analyze situations in which it is better to use an anonymous search engine, and when it is preferable to use the usual Yandex, Google and Bing.

Anonymous search engine

  • Preface
  • Search Engine Security
  • Search engine anonymity
  • Anonymous search engines
    • DuckDuckGo
    • Ixquick
    • Startpage
    • eTools.ch
    • Privatelee
  • Conclusion

Search Engine Security

Secure Internet search begins with an encrypted transmission of the request between the user and the server. I used the excellent SSL Server Test tool to test the encryption. I ran all the search engines through it and identified obvious outsiders in our review.

Why outsiders?

Because a search engine that positions itself as anonymous and secure must first of all force and automatically establish a secure SSL connection.

For this purpose in address bar In the eTools search engine, you need to manually enter “https”. In YaCy search - activate the use of the secure HTTPS protocol in the settings. And others besides DuckDuckGo, Startpage Ixquick have even worse problems with this matter.

Google and Yandex don’t have such problems. In general, in terms of security and encryption of requests, Yandex and Google have no equal.

Another important criterion is the length of the encryption key. The longer the better. DuckDuckGo showed itself the best way With RSA encryption 4096 bits. Its competitors use keys half as long. But even they will be considered safe for a long time.

You should also pay attention to PFS. This parameter is even more important than the length of the encryption key. For those who are not in the know, PFS (Perfect forward secrecy) translates as perfect forward secrecy. In simple words PFS is protection against recording of an encrypted session by intelligence agencies and hackers.

Search engine anonymity

It's all about safety. And now about anonymity. Unlike Google, Yandex and others, where all your queries are saved, processed and analyzed, anonymous search engines do not store your Internet activity.

By the way, you can view all your queries on Google using the “” service. There you can also find your other traces left on the network. It is saved in the same way.

Well, and finally about the cookies. Cookies. Persistent cookies in anonymous search engines are only saved if the default settings are changed - for example, if you set the DuckDuckGo interface language or the Ixquick interface theme. None of the alternative anonymous search engines use Cookies user ID.

And Google does this with every request. To process the IP address, it dynamically uses numerous persistent Cookies with an ID to accurately identify the user. What did you think?

Anonymous search engine Yacy

Anonymous search engine Ixquick

The search engine was founded by David Bodnikin in 1998. Since 2000, it has been owned by the Dutch company Surfboard Holding BV.

Ixquick.com is the first search engine to remove sensitive data from its users. IP addresses and other personal information users are deleted 48 hours after the search.


The search engine also has an interesting feature “Proxy mode”. Works this function So. Next to each site in the search results there is a “Proxy” button, by clicking on which you will receive information from the site anonymously - the Startpage robot will go to the page you are looking for, then download it and display it to you.

Main features of Ixquick:

  • SSL/PFS encryption standard.
  • Does not save search history/IP address/sensitive data.

A worthy competitor to DuckDuckGo. In some ways it’s even better. The only downside I can mention is that there is no option to change the site interface language. Those. There is such a possibility, but Russian is not among the possible languages ​​yet.

The search engine is another project of the Ixquick company. There is one difference between the search engine Ixquick and Startpage. The latter uses only Google results in search results, but like Ixquick, it does not store IP addresses, removes identifying information from user search queries and sends anonymized, anonymous information to Google.


Anonymous search engine Startpage

Startpage also has a free anonymous web proxy through which the user can open websites using their proxy service and search for pictures and videos anonymously.

The search engine, when working between the client and the server, uses by default HTTPS protocol with algorithm AES encryption and a key 128 bits long.

Main features of Startpage:

  • SSL/PFS encryption standard.
  • Servers are located in the Netherlands.
  • There are applications for Android and iOS.
  • Does not transfer confidential data to third parties.
  • Does not save user ID in Cookies.
  • Does not track third party cookies.

A worthy competitor to DuckDuckGo, but Ixquick is better. One of the downsides, like Ixquick, is that it is not possible to change the site interface language. There is anything you want, but not Russian.

Anonymous search engine eTools.ch

The search engine is another online service positioning itself as anonymous. Let's find out how anonymous it is. So, eTools.ch does not have its own index and ranking algorithms; search results are taken from other services: Ask, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Yahoo, Wikipedia, Google, etc.


eTools.ch uses the HTTPS protocol by default between client and server.

Main features of eTools.ch:

  • PFS encryption standard
  • Does not save search history such as: IP address and confidential data.
  • Does not transfer confidential data to third parties.
  • Does not save user ID in Cookies.

Compared to DuckDuckGo and Ixquick, everything is much worse. eTools.ch stores persistent and third party tracking Cookies.

Anonymous search engine Privatelee

Privatelee is not the most popular service. Search results are generated by mastering its index. Quality search results far from ideal. Using Power Search filters, you can add search results Google results, Ask and Bing.


There are almost no settings. A WOT rating icon is displayed next to each site. Yes, friends, you heard right, the search engine developers apparently do not know what the users are like. Maybe we can send them a link to our website and invite them to subscribe?))

There is nothing more to say and I don’t see the point in comparing with others.

Other anonymous search engines

This review did not include other anonymous search engines, as they do not have such rich functionality. It doesn’t make sense to do a review on each of them, but knowing that they exist is not bad.

  • Anonymous search engine Hulbee
  • Anonymous search engine Lukol
  • Anonymous search engine Yippy
  • Anonymous search engine Disconnect Search

In conclusion, I will answer one of the main questions.

In what cases is it justified to use an anonymous search engine?

If you are looking for something that you would not want the world wide web to know about!

In all other cases, it is better to use regular search engines such as Yandex and Google. Today, the quality of search results from these search giants is much better than any anonymous search engine.

Low anonymity is the price to pay for using leading technologies search ranking, who try their best to prevent fraudulent or low-quality sites from reaching the top. In this world, you have to pay for everything, sometimes with money, and sometimes with information.

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The best Internet search engines. Internet search engine – This special programs for search, installed on a whole complex of specialized machines. But in simple terms - this is the same site with a set of programs, only on a special search engine(server). It is with the help of search engines that you find all the information you need. There are a lot of search engines.

1. What is an Internet search engine

2. Popular search engines in our country

3. Popular search engines abroad

4. Unusual search engines

5. How to properly search for information on the Internet

The most best psearch systems in our country:

http://www.yandex.ru

http://www.google.com

http://www.aport.ru

http://www.rambler.ru/

http://go.mail.ru

http://www.webalta.ru/

The most unloved and intrusive search engine by all.

Popular search engines abroad

http://www.altavista.com

http://www.alltheweb.com

http://www. bing.com

http://www.google.com
http://www.excite.com
http://www.lycos.com
http://www.mamma.com

http://www.yahoo.com

http://www.dmoz.com
http://www.hotbot.com
http://www.dogpile.com
http://www.netscape.com
http://www.msn.com
http://www.webcrawler.com
http://www.jayde.com
http://www.aol.com
http://www.euroseek.com
http://www.teoma.com
http://www.about.com
http://www.ixquick.com
http://www.lookle.com
http://www.metaeureka.com
http://www.searchspot.com
http://www.slider.com
http://www.allthesites.com
http://www.clickey.com
http://www.galaxy.com
http://brainysearch.com
http://www.orura.com

Each country has its own popular search engines.

Unusual search engines

  • DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/) - a hybrid search engine with a privacy policy for the user and his search queries.

  • TinEye (http://tineye.com/) is a search engine specializing in searching images on the Internet. It has recently lost its relevance after Google introduced the same function in its image search.

  • Guenon (http://www.genon.ru/) is a search engine that collects and creates content on its website.

In almost every search engine, in addition to the search box, there are links to the most popular news sites, and sites of certain subjects.

How to properly search for information on the Internet

Each search engine has its own algorithms (rules) for searching for information.

In order to find some information on the Internet through a search engine, you need to enter in the search field request. If you enter one word, then this request will give you thousands of links to sites where this word is mentioned.

Therefore, it is necessary to enter as specific a query as possible, consisting of two, three or more phrases.

Let's look at an example of a search engine query Yandex.

Let's say you want to find information on buying a computer. If you write one word in the search box “ Computer", then you will get 133 million answers

You need to ask a more specific request. It is better to indicate which computer you want to buy and where (in which city).

Then the search engine will give you much fewer answers to your query.

The search engine doesn’t care at all whether you enter your query in capital or small letters.

Yandex distinguishes between nouns and adjectives, but completely ignores endings.

He is also completely indifferent to cases, plurals and the like.

To make the search more accurate, you need to put the query in quotation marks or put an exclamation point in front of the word.

Now look at the same query, but without the exclamation marks.

Do you see the difference? With exclamation marks, the number of responses is not 2 million, but 186 thousand.

If you put an exclamation point before the word with capital letter, then you will be given answers in which this particular word appears with a capital letter.

If the word is in the nominative case, and you need information on exactly such a word, and exactly as you wrote it, then put two in front of this word exclamation point. For example: !!Ball .

The search will give you answers for exactly this word " Ball" the way you wrote it. Not " ball", Not " balls", and with a capital letter.

If you write a phrase with the word " on", then Yandex will ignore " on" For example: " on the shelf" The search will only be performed using the word " shelf ».

In order for him to take it into account and not ignore it, it is necessary before the word “ on» put a plus sign – « +on ».

Each search engine has its own search algorithm, so if you use a specific search engine and want to learn how to correctly compose queries, then you just need to type in search bar « search rules inGoogle " or " search rules in Yandex ", follow the link to the response to your request and read the necessary information.


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