What are the best non-main-stream search engines today?

I have been and still a HUGE fan of ixquick.com. No tracking or tracing my deviant searches.

Is wolfram alpha still considered obscure?

I tried Dogpile for a while and liked it.
When I went back, I couldn’t understand why I’d liked it.

Thanks for the tip, @Cruiser. Didn’t know about this one and, at least initially, I like it.

@Cruiser

I dunno. “Private” and “enhanced by Google” seem a bit mutually exclusive to me.

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a while now, and I am quite happy with it.

@Darth_Algar Read their Privacy Policy and why I prefer ixquick over others that I know of at this moment. Plus IMHO Ixquick consistently finds stuff google passes over.

@Cruiser

Yeah, I get that. The thing is, if they’re using Google’s tech, while they may not be tracking and storing anything on their end, how can they be certain that Google isn’t?

Check out this site you might like -

http://privatebrowsingmyths.com/

I pretty much thought the whole point of private browsing was just that you didn’t want your wife seeing that you looked up anal fisting videos in your browser’s history, not that you necessarily cared that your IP still knew where you were going (which private browsing tabs put up a little disclaimer making pretty clear can still happen).

Sad to say Google is still the king of search engines. There have been many challengers to Google all these years but all of them have faltered. May the next challenger wins over Google.

Sadly? How on earth is it sad? They have brilliant algorithms that go into their search engine, they rightfully claimed the title of best search engine because they are.

@XOIIO Respectfully disagree….Google may be the biggest and appear to be the best by it’s sheer size and dominance of the internet but that IMHO hardly makes them the best. Google owns and data mines all the web searches. Google then picks winners and losers all by how the host web pages play by their rules. If you don’t demonstrate total ass kissing of Google and their rules you will be totally ignored by their search engine. The worst part is having to pay per click just to garner more attention to your website.

Yes it is a choice a company can make to pay to play or not. Google is a monopoly of unprecedented size and a very unsavory one at that….again IMHO.

If we are not careful, Google will become another Microsoft for the new era.

Google is the best platform for searching for commercialized information. Information that is generating revenue for someone, as opposed to raw information.

One of the greatest things about the internet pre-Google was the fun and interesting things that we ran into by accident. Now everything seems so dialed in – so canned – to me. Google give new meaning to the web, in that it seems to have cast a web across the internet that catches the smallest tremor and sends the message back to the builder.

Another is Gibiru.com.

Gibiru worked well for me, @Zaku!
I think I’ll give it a try.