HACKER Q&A
📣 rStar

Best way to Google? log out first


so, everyone on here likes to posit that google is ‘the best search engine’.

my question is, since google ‘personalizes’ search so much from individual to individual, if I want to truly take advantage of the wisdom of crowds, to get the best out of google search, don’t i have to log out first? which enables generalized search results, rather than google telling me what i want to see?


  👤 decrypt Accepted Answer ✓
I have been using Whoogle search for the last two months:

https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

It is "A self-hosted, ad-free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine". Happy with the experience so far.


👤 pdevr
I open a new window in Chrome's Incognito mode. Works well, as long as that is the first Incognito window opened.

👤 KhyberNomad
I've been using Brave Search. The fast answers are better than duck duck go in my opinion

👤 mkbkn
I use Ecosia or Startpage. Never felt the need for Google since past many years.

👤 yuppie_scum
Duck duck go