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[–] raw 2 points 9 points (+11|-2) ago 

There exists. It's called startpage.com It uses Google search but keeps you anonymous. You request data from startpage, they request the same data from Google and deliver via their server. With millions of search from different users, it's not possible to single out a particular user. It is even the default search engine in Tor browser.

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[–] anonnynonny 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

You're still required to give inherent trust to the proxy service. You have no guarantee that you aren't being logged. So you're actually doubling the amount of blind trust you have to hand out... first to the man in the middle startpage, then to google.

It's a workaround, not a solution.

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[–] prairie 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Not doubling, since you cut Google out of the loop. But you are putting a big flag on yourself, saying to anyone wanting to snoop that you probably have more interesting things to search than the masses using Google.

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[–] superesper ago  (edited ago)

Half the reason Google is shit is that it filters your results. Goign to another site to get Google results is missing the point. Searx is a good private search.

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[–] Germ22 ago 

But searX uses google results, along side yahoo and bing

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[–] raw 1 point -1 points (+0|-1) ago 

Google filters results to pander to it's users. For instance, if I search for some politics, infowars will be my top result if I am a conservative and CNN will be my top result if I am a liberal. So, Google will filter my results according to me. And startpage will help you prevent that filtering.

But also, I don't know if filtering is good or bad. For instance, if I search for 'bra' Google knows that I am a male physicist, so my top results will be about Dirac Bra rathar than a piece of clothing because that is most probably what I am searching for.