{"id":799,"date":"2013-09-06T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T05:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=799"},"modified":"2013-09-22T09:28:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T08:28:19","slug":"4-yes-there-is-an-alternative-to-google-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/4-yes-there-is-an-alternative-to-google-search\/","title":{"rendered":"4. Yes, there is an alternative to Google Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?cat=55\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-788\" style=\"margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px;\" alt=\"techtipsfortradeunionists\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/techtipsfortradeunionists.png\" width=\"234\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/techtipsfortradeunionists.png 447w, https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/techtipsfortradeunionists-300x92.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>I realize that the word &#8220;Google&#8221; is now a verb, and we all Google things now and then, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be that way.<\/p>\n<p>There are several reasons not to use Google, not least of which is privacy,<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t like the idea that a giant, privately-owned business can know everything I search for, read all my emails, and know every web page I visit.<\/p>\n<p>Yet this is what happpens when you&#8217;re signed into Google Chrome as your web browser, use Google to search and Gmail as your email.<\/p>\n<p>One very good alternative has the ridiculous name of <a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/\">DuckDuckGo<\/a> (don&#8217;t ask).<\/p>\n<p>It works as well as Google, and it doesn&#8217;t spy on you.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this page &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/donttrack.us\/\">Google tracks you.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t. An illustrated guide.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s dead easy to add as a replacement to Google in Firefox and other web browsers &#8212; maybe even Google Chrome as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I realize that the word &#8220;Google&#8221; is now a verb, and we all Google things now and then, but it doesn&#8217;t have to be that way. There are several reasons not to use Google, not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips-for-trade-unionists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":800,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}