I am a fan of Google. I will admit that. I use them for all my info searches. But I should be aware that as Google tracks my searches and my likes, etc, the filter bubble I'm creating by liking things will affect the results I get. There's an info-graphic reminding me about this created by a Google competitor (I'll keep the source in mind too). So I thought I'd just stop by here and list a few other search engines to try whenever I'm getting too Google focused.- blekko.com- uses slash tags to curate
- duckduckgo.com- says it doesn't use filters based on your preferences for bias free results
- dogpile.com- a metasearch engine
You may note that Bing and Yahoo are not on here. I don't Bing and while the Yahoo interface is nice, as I understand, the results come from Bing.
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The same article I read about filter bubbles also mentioned the following resources as good for targeted searching, though I wouldn't consider them search engines in the slightest:
http://www.politickerusa.com/ - real time tracking of Politician's tweets
http://tunein.com/ - listening to radio stations from around the world for news and learning new languages.
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