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Almost all the major search engines these days are powered by Google or Yahoo: MSN, AOL, Excite, Ask Jeeves, Teoma, AltaVista, AllTheWeb, HotBot, Lycos, and Netscape to name a few. I gave up on Google a few years ago due to their ubiquitous advertising and propensity to keep track of your search history indefinitely. This week I found instructions on how to delete your search history from Google. But for the past year or so I've been using Ixquick Metasearch, based in the Netherlands. It searches Google, Yahoo, etc. and picks the top results. Best of all Ixquick's policy is to dump all histories. For those times you have trouble finding results, Dogpile is one of the top rated metasearch engines. Dogpile also has SearchSpy, if you want to voyeur what other people are searching for. Recently I've begun playing with clustered search engines (Clusty, Mooter, and Grokker) which attempt to group results for you. Still can't decide? The venerable Search Engine Watch has more than you'll ever want to know about search engines and includes listings and rankings for mainstream engines and those for news, shopping, multimedia, specific country, and other specialty engines. But my current fave is Search With Kevin.

How To Delete Your Search History From Your Google Account

Ixquick Metasearch

Dogpile

Dogpile - SearchSpy

Clusty

Mooter

Grokker

Search Engine Watch

Search With Kevin