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Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by emerongi on Thursday March 16, 2017 @01:03PM (#13886689)
I either use DuckDuckGo or if it doesn't return relevant results, I use Google in private mode. Private mode obviously doesn't help much (they can easily connect me to my Google Account), but Google does have the years of development behind it.
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Re:Police ask for whole city's Google searches, and a judge ... by clubm8 on Thursday March 16, 2017 @03:35PM (#13888378)
I've had good luck with Bing, so now I use that as my fallback.

But honestly, simply forumulating a query appropraiately can help.

Pagerank basically lets you use search terms like circles on a Venn diagram - whatever's in the intersection floats to the top.

DDG requires a little more effort. Putting quotes around words that group together, using - to exclude large chunks of.

I find when I "search like it's 1999" DDG does fine.

(The syntax page has some useful tips: https://duck.co/help/results/syntax)

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