+1 for DuckDuckGo
I got fed up with google. I like to search something, then refine my results by searching again based on what I see from the original search. This isn’t possible with google’s auto-fill-search thing. You can turn it off, but I use multiple computers and don’t want to have to sign in to google whenever I want to search.
Fed up with my results being tailored to what it thinks I want them to be, when I use the internet to learn more than to fester my original viewpoints.
Fed up with it assuming I want things like ‘social search’ involving social network posts from people I don’t know in my searches, enabling them by default.
Fed up with it telling me to use Chrome when I use Firefox.
Dissapointed that hundreds of talented software engineers were duped into working for the world’s largest advertising broker.
The company seems determined to be the one-stop-place for everything on the internet. See also: Early 00’s AOL
I could go on and on…