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It appears to me that yahoo is the same as Bing, MS having bought the Yahoo search. And DuckDuckGo seems to be tied to Yahoo. So that possibly leaves only 1 major competitor, except would you add on Yandex? And isn't there some Chinese search engine? Maybe we need a search engine by conservatives, not to censor liberal sites, not advertised as conservative. Problem is IMHO that Google is so much better than the competition for some purposes, if not for searching for guns & ammo. Maybe what is needed is a search engine which specializes in listing sites blocked by Google; in fact it might advertise itself as listing Google blocked sites. ([[User:Thunkful2|Thunkful2]] ([[User talk:Thunkful2|talk]]) 12:44, 26 August 2016 (EDT))
It appears to me that yahoo is the same as Bing, MS having bought the Yahoo search. And DuckDuckGo seems to be tied to Yahoo. So that possibly leaves only 1 major competitor, except would you add on Yandex? And isn't there some Chinese search engine? Maybe we need a search engine by conservatives, not to censor liberal sites, not advertised as conservative. Problem is IMHO that Google is so much better than the competition for some purposes, if not for searching for guns & ammo. Maybe what is needed is a search engine which specializes in listing sites blocked by Google; in fact it might advertise itself as listing Google blocked sites. ([[User:Thunkful2|Thunkful2]] ([[User talk:Thunkful2|talk]]) 12:44, 26 August 2016 (EDT))
:There are plenty of competitors, but Bing and Yahoo are the biggest ones in the U.S. There are plenty of others, though. As you pointed out, some are partners. DuckDuckGo is partnered with Yahoo, ixquick is partnered with Google, etc., but there are plenty of independent search engines still. Ask.com, webcrawler.com, yippy.com, all seem to be independant competitors as well. I would count Yandex as a big one as well, since although they are not as big in the U.S., they dominate the market in some other parts of the world.
:You're right, an unbiased search engine is needed, but Google is the censoring king, so until something better comes along, you're best off with almost anyone else. As for a "blocked by google" search engine, (which sounds sort of like deletopedia for web searching), it would be very hard to do this, since Google isn't not forthright with their filtering and censoring. It's a near idea, if it were possible, but I also doubt many people would use it, since Google blocks a lot of sites for good reason, too. --[[User:DavidB4|<font color="ForestGreen">David B</font>]] <sup><small>([[User talk:DavidB4|TALK]])</small></sup> 13:07, 26 August 2016 (EDT)