SURROGATE SEARCH ENGINES

1. BING

1.1. Brief simple descriptions

1.2. Fancy background images slow loading

2. DUCKDUCKGO

2.1. Doesn’t collect or store any of your personal information.

2.2. Private personal information

3. WIKI

3.1. Thousands of wikis on the net

3.2. Community-led information

4. GIBIRU

4.1. Doesn’t install tracking cookies on your computer

4.2. Faster than “NSA Search Engines.”

5. SEARCH ENCRYPT

5.1. One of the best parts of Search Encrypt is that your search terms will eventually expire

5.2. It uses a combination of encryption methods that include Secure Sockets Layer encryption

6. STARTPAGE

6.1. Includes a URL generator, a proxy service, and HTTPS support

6.2. Eliminates the need to collect cookies. Instead, it remembers your settings in a way that promotes privacy

7. BOARDREADER

7.1. If you’re interested in finding a forum or message board about a specific subject, Boardreader should be the first place you turn to

7.2. You should be able to find the forum you want with just a few keystrokes

8. QUORA

8.1. People are treated with respect

8.2. None, unless you are a person who want to have free reign with abusive, harassing content

9. TWITTER

9.1. It’s the perfect place to go for minute by minute updates in the case of an emergency

9.2. Nothing beats a Tweet in the heat of the moment

10. CC SEARCH

10.1. Perfect if you need music for a video

10.2. The way CC Search works is simple

11. INTERNET ARCHIVE

11.1. A vast online library where you can access just about anything you could imagine

11.2. Is great for researching old websites, but it’s so much more.

12. YANDEX

12.1. It offers a suite of some pretty cool tools.

12.2. You can search for your personal files right from the search bar of the search engine

13. SWISSCOWS

13.1. One of the more unique options on this list, billing itself as a family-friendly semantic search engine

13.2. It uses artificial intelligence to determine the context of a user’s query

14. ECOSIA

14.1. Environmentally friendly search engine

14.2. Uses the revenues generated from search engine queries to plant trees