One reason why so many of
us fall prey to online criminals is that we entrust companies that
claim to be reliable and reputable with our data. Search engines are
a prime example of how we are overly trusting with our personal
information. Companies such as Microsoft and Google know your hardware,
location, age, occupation, interests, fears, dreams, health status
and income level. The data collected by search engines about you is collected as you search and then sold onto third party advertising and marketing companies. This business model has turned Google into a
multi-billion dollar global behemoth.
Google admit to retaining information that would allow a hacker to personally identify you for at 18 months, after which they claim that the data is then ‘anonymized’. Google remains the market leader amongst search engines.
Although the last known breach of a major search engine company was that suffered by AOL in 2006, companies suffer data breaches every day and hackers are increasingly adept at hiding their tracks and the intrusions themselves. Regardless, your data is value to legitimate companies and criminals alike. With that being said here is a summary of some of the very best alternatives. Do right by yourself and keep your online searches private:
https://startpage.com/
https://duckduckgo.com/
Google admit to retaining information that would allow a hacker to personally identify you for at 18 months, after which they claim that the data is then ‘anonymized’. Google remains the market leader amongst search engines.
Although the last known breach of a major search engine company was that suffered by AOL in 2006, companies suffer data breaches every day and hackers are increasingly adept at hiding their tracks and the intrusions themselves. Regardless, your data is value to legitimate companies and criminals alike. With that being said here is a summary of some of the very best alternatives. Do right by yourself and keep your online searches private:
Startpage
Startpage claims to be the only third party search engine to not record IP address or track individual search terms. So as to avoid data falling into the ‘wrong hands’ they refuse to store any. Startpage offers the option of full proxy protection.https://startpage.com/
DuckDuckGo
Advertises itself as ‘the search engine that doesn’t track you’. DuckDuckGo began life as a project to provide relevant search results without the spam that plagues other, more popular search engines but by 2009 became privacy-focused choose not to collect user data.https://duckduckgo.com/
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