Google Chrome search engine y sus alternativas

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Lista de cosas que usan ciertos gobiernos y Google Chrome para espiarte:
*ID de cliente: Chrome crea un identificador único a través del cual un usuario puede ser teóricamente identificado.
*Timestamp: Chrome recuerda hasta el segundo exacto cuando se instaló el software.
*Sugerir: Dependiendo de la configuración, cada vez que pones algo en la línea de dirección, esta información es enviada a Google para ofrecer sugerencias.
*Suplanta Páginas de error: Dependiendo de la configuración, si ha escrito una dirección falsa en la barra de dirección, este se enviará a Google y obtendrá un mensaje de error de los servidores de Google.
*RLZ-Tracking: Chrome transmite la función de información en forma codificada a Google, por ejemplo, cuándo y dónde Chrome ha sido descargado.
*Google Updater: Chrome instala una actualización, que se carga de fondo.
*URL-Tracker: Llamadas en función de la configuración, cinco segundos después del lanzamiento de la página principal de Google se carga de fondo.
Y se le ha incorporado estas características:
*Webkit/V8 – La versión actual de Google Chrome utiliza la versión 530.5 del motor WebKit, y la versión 1.1.10 del motor V8 Javascript
*Adblocker – Chrome no tiene incorporado un Adblocker
*User-Agent – El User-Agent en Chrome es sólo variable con los parámetros sobre un enlace o un comando, que no es realmente ideal para el uso permanente.
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Buscadores web que dan mejores y mas resultados:
duckduckgo la niña bonita entre los buscadores ya que, ofrece una navegación segura, privada y completamente anónima, su icono es un simpático patito, te invito a probarlo y buscar lo que sea en él. HAN HABILITADO UNA WEB PARA EXPLICAR CÓMO NOS ESPÍA GOOGLE, ESE BUSCADOR QUE MANIPULA LOS RESULTADOS: donttrack.us

 ixquick Según aseguran ellos, “el motor de búsqueda más confidencial del mundo”
Yahoo!
Bing
Ask

Mapas alternativos que te “espian” menos que el de Google:
Yahoo! Maps
Bing Maps
Nasa World Wind
Open Street Map (mapa libremente editable)
OpenLayers (proyecto open source, con licencia BSD)
Ovi (proyecto de Nokia.)

Correo y mensajería menos vigilada:
Yahoo! Mail (en mi opinión, de los mejor organizados y cómodos. Para enviar archivos adjuntos va de maravilla)
Hotmail (Windows Live ID, para mail, chat y Xbox Live)
GMX (Es EUROPEO, no de los usa)
Jabber

Todo esto lo ví buscando: "Grandes alternativas a los servicios de Google (o como huír de la gran G)"

Os animo a aportar ideas alternativas a Google, pues empieza a perder popularidad debido a sus prácticas de espiar y manipular a sus usuarios, cambiando sus búsquedas y redirigiéndolas hacia otras más “respetuosas con el régimen”: donttrack.us

The Search for Stupidity

Source 09/23/2009 in Stupid Fun by Maxim Staff

Koogle.co.il
Made specifically for orthodox Jewish computer users, this search engine omits religiously objectionable material like photographs of immodest women. (We’re guessing that means no photos of ham and cheese sandwiches or crab cakes, either.)

Searchwithkevin.com
Powered by Kevin Federline (wait, he’s still alive?), every time you search this site you’re entered to win a kick-ass prize. The most popular prize searchers are eligible for is Swag Bucks, which you can redeem for official K-Fed merchandise, autographs, iPhones, and two therapy-bound children.

Blackle.com
Yahoo! may hate the environment, but Blackle hearts it. The background on this search engine’s main page is black to reduce energy consumption. Dude, if you’re so worried about saving the world, just compost your downloaded porn.

Peepo.com
This icon-based directory makes it easier for learning-disabled folks to navigate the Web. Sweet idea! We can’t wait to see their icon for our favorite time-killing Web site: hornyalbinogoats.com. (We just love watching those little guys scamper!)

Banana slug.com
“Tired of the same old Google results?” the site’s header asks. Well, no, actually, since you asked. Who gets tired of viewing images of DD boobs when you do a search for “gardening equipment”?

YaCy

YaCy (read "ya see") is a free distributed search engine, built on principles of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. Its core is a computer program written in Java distributed on several hundred computers, as of September 2006^[update], so-called YaCy-peers. Each YaCy-peer independently crawls through the Internet, analyses and indexes found web pages and stores indexing results in a common database (so called index) which is shared with other YaCy-peers using principles of P2P networks.
Compared to semi-distributed search engines, the YaCy-network has a decentralised architecture. All YaCy-peers are equal and no central server exists. It can be run either in a crawling mode or as a local proxy server, indexing web pages visited by the person running YaCy on his or her computer. (Several mechanisms are provided to protect user's privacy).
Access to the search functions is made by a locally running web server which provides a search box to enter the query and returns results of the search in form of a web page as usual on other search portals and engines.

• Sciencenet, a search engine for scientific knowledge, based on YaCy

About YaCy

• Download the Search engine software Yacy client
• YaCy website
• English forum
• The YaCy-Wiki

Searching For Files

... on File Hosting Sites with Google

File hosting services like Rapidshare, Megaupload or SendIt allow anyone to post up files for others to find and use. While this is useful for sending files too large for e-mail attachments, the sites usually offer an anonymous uploading system which prevents users from searching through the file hosting host’s databases to find files directly.
The logic behind this is obvious: File Hosting sites are not intended as a full-on hosting service, and were it to provide it’s files in a searchable manner, bandwidth costs would skyrocket. Additionally, software pirates and other persons wishing to covertly acquire digital content they have no right to would be able to quickly and easily find such data which has been uploaded by equally unscrupulous persons.
But what if you are just looking for a free game, a movie preview, or a file you downloaded a month ago and accidentally deleted? Luckily, using the power of Google, you can root through file hosting services to find files. All you have to do is tell Google to look through the site for you. To do this all you need to do is type the following into Google’s search bar:
site:url “[Term]“

If you replace [term] with whatever you are looking for, Google will root through the url that you specified in search of files that either have the term in their filename or their description. This will permit you to easily and quickly root through file hosting sites in search of specific files when you know exactly what you are looking for, such as the preview to an upcoming movie or the demo version of a specific game.

If you’ve got a more general idea of what you want, it may be a good idea to have Google search the sites for specific filetypes. To do this for music files, enter the following into the Google search bar:
+inurl:wma|mp3|ogg site:url
This will tell Google to search the site for the most popular sort of music files.

If you want to search for videos, enter:
+inurl:avi|mpg|wmv site:url

And if you want to search for just archives in general, enter:
+inurl:exe|rar|zip site:url

Each of these methods isn’t foolproof. You will invariably end up with a large number of files you do not want, and it will take awhile to root through the results to find what you are interested in. Also it is important to be aware that since file hosting sites are quick and anonymous that not all files will be properly labeled or even safe.

How do Search Engines Work?

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Google has one of the largest databases of Web pages, including many other types of web documents (blog posts, wiki pages, group discussion threads and document formats (e.g., PDFs, Word or Excel documents, PowerPoints). Despite the presence of all these formats, Google's popularity ranking often places worthwhile pages near the top of search results. Our web searching workshop reflects the fact that Google is currently the most used search engine.
Google alone is not always sufficient, however. Not everything on the Web is fully searchable in Google.
Overlap studies show that more than 80% of the pages in a major search engine's database exist only in that database. For this reason, getting a "second opinion" can be worth your time. For this purpose, we recommend Yahoo! Search or Exalead. We do not recommend using meta-search engines as your primary search tool.
Search engines do not really search the World Wide Web directly. Each one searches a database of web pages that it has harvested and cached. When you use a search engine, you are always searching a somewhat stale copy of the real web page. When you click on links provided in a search engine's search results, you retrieve the current version of the page. Search engine databases are selected and built by computer robot programs called spiders.
These "crawl" the web, finding pages for potential inclusion by following the links in the pages they already have in their database. They cannot use imagination or enter terms in search boxes that they find on the web. If a web page is never linked from any other page, search engine spiders cannot find it. The only way a brand new page can get into a search engine is for other pages to link to it, or for a human to submit its URL for inclusion. All major search engines offer ways to do this. After spiders find pages, they pass them on to another computer program for "indexing." This program identifies the text, links, and other content in the page and stores it in the search engine database's files so that the database can be searched by keyword and whatever more advanced approaches are offered, and the page will be found if your search matches its content. Many web pages are excluded from most search engines by policy. The contents of most of the searchable databases mounted on the web, such as library catalogs and article databases, are excluded because search engine spiders cannot access them. All this material is referred to as the "Invisible Web" -- what you don't see in search engine results.

What Makes a Search Engine Good?

Finding Information on the Internet

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This tutorial presents the substance of the web searching workshop (current schedule) offered by the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley. We call the workshop "Research-quality Web Searching" to reflect our belief that there is a lot of great material on the Web - primary sources, specialized directories and databases, statistical information, educational sites on many levels, policy, opinion of all kinds, and so much more - and tools for finding it are steadily improving.

Recommended Search Strategy: Analyze Your Topic & Search With Peripheral Vision

Search Tools:

• Search Engines - Comparison table of recommended search engines; how search engines work
• Subject Directories - Table comparing some of the best human-selected collections of web pages
• Meta-Search Engines - Use at your own risk: not recommended as a substitute for directly using search engines
• Invisible Web - What it is, how to find it, and its inherent ambiguity (searchable databases on the Web)

Evaluating Web Pages: Why and How and evaluation checklist forms (PDFs)

Style Sheets for Citing Resources (Print & Electronic) (MLA, APA, Chicago/Turabian)

Glossary of Internet & Web Jargon

Handouts and PowerPoints used in our Current Classes
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As part of the Know Your Library Workshops series, we offer a session titled "Research-quality Web Searching: Google and Beyond," which covers:

• Making your Google searches more precise and focusing on academic information.
• Using other search tools and new technologies to improve your results.

Evaluating what you find for research quality.

Current versions (Spring 2009)

• Google and Beyond slides (PPT)
• Google and Beyond handout (RTF)
• Web Page Evaluation Checklist (RTF)

Previous versions (not updated)

• Googling to the Max (PPT)
• Beyond Google: Other Search Engines, Directories, and Evaluation of Web Pages (PPT)
• Googling to the Max: Hands-on Exercises (PDF)
• Table comparing Google Books and Google Scholar (PDF)
• Beyond Google: Hands-on Exercises (PDF)
• Evaluation of Web Pages Worksheets (PDF)
  • Version used in classes
  • Generalized version adaptable to other topics
  • Shorter checklist version

Rapidshare search

free-rapidshare-search.com
rapisharedata.com

RapidShare search engines

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RapidShare is a popular choice to host files online for free. RapidShare has generous limits (200MB file upload limit) even in a free account. To download a file, simply use the link for the file. If you want to share files with friends, upload the file to RapidShare and send the links to download.

RapidShare can be really useful if you know how to get the right files. On RapidShare, you can get every type of content you could possibly dream of - warez, songs, pirated content, pr0n etc. One feature they miss (and I wonder why) is searching for files. You could use complicated Google search operators, but to make your job easier, here are the best search engines to search for content you need, on RapidShare. Simply type your search terms and hit enter - just like Google.

• SearchShared
• RSFind
• Ineedfile
• RapidShareLink
• FileSearcher
• ShareMiner

Among the above, SearchShared can be used to search on many other sites (simply tick the ones you want). RapidShareLink has the best design. ShareMiner has a Firefox plugin, so if you use Firefox, you can search for Rapidshare files from within Firefox.

Mi acábose...

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Web Security Guard

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Are the websites you visit safe? Do you know which search results are dangerous? If you don't, Web Security Guard does!
Install Web Security Guard and get free protection against adware, spyware and data loss!
Web Security Guard warns you before you access a dangerous website, so you can prevent infection of your computer and invasion of your privacy.

Features

• Safe Browsing
• Spyware, Adware, Virus & Spam Prevention
• Safe Search
• Website Rating
• Automatic Updates
• On Demand Database Update
• Customizable Website Classification

Just found this while doing some rogue site investigating. Going to install it on test box to see how it fares.

Rating categories:

• Safe
• Adware, spyware, viruses
• Spam
• Phishing & scams website
• Advertising networks
• Warez & Illegal content
• Pornography
• Pop up flood

I see it's pulling resources from:

• antiphishing.org
• stopbadware.org
• phishtank.com

Web Security Guard

SiteAdvisor-SiteHound-WebOfTrust-AdblockPlus

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Thanks, Donna!
I thought to bump this thread because it's been months and I'm still not
convince to install on my non-test machine the SiteAdvisor.
Today, I did another run with it in test XP Pro system and ugh....
Rogue/bad site: antivirus0003.com
SiteAdvisor did not block the page (even if the bad domain has been reported to them)

SiteHound, Web of Trust, Adblock Plus will block it and of course, the IP blocklist and Hosts file will drop the connection:






So I'm sticking with the browser security add-ons by keeping (still) the following:
1. SiteHound, Web of Trust (they work along) in Firefox
2. Adblock plus then subscribe to block filters
3. NoScript
4. Hosts file
Since Outpost IP Blocklist will block what's on my blocklist (whatever browser I will use)... it's 'activated' in firewall.
I am not using Dr.Web link scanner at the moment. No reason other than I have no time to play with it again in new builds of browser.
At times, I'm using Sandboxie (if I am going to play with a site or link) but often Disk Protection by Windows SteadyState is "on" so whenever I'm done browsing or playing with files or sites, everything is trashed by SteadyState on restart or on schedule.
While we're talking about browser security add-on, I thought I mention also that those fast browser security add-ons are a good help to users to avoid infection while browsing.
An example:
Search using keyword "VIPRE antivirus + antispyware" in the search bar of the browser:
This site will redirect the user to a rogue domain that will autodownload rogue installer e.g. xp-cleaner

If Web Of Trust is installed, it will show 'red' status which means the WOT user should NOT visit the link:

SiteAdvisor's rating icon is 'untested' which means users should think twice, thrice whether the site is good or bad. Since it's untested, user of SA should be very careful because it's not known
to SiteAdvisor yet:

Let's hope SiteHound will have rating icon/alert on link also for search engines so SH users will have extra protection on bad links in search results.

IP anonymization time in logs will be reduced from 18 to 9 months

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Google has announced on its official blog that, following the concerns expressed by privacy regulators in Europe and US, it will anonymize IPs in the server search logs after 9 months instead of 18. After being the first major search engine to clearly specify a retention time for IPs of 18 months, Google claims that the new change will demonstrate once again the company's commitment to data protection and users' privacy.

Google's decision to anonymize IPs in the search logs after 18 months was also implemented by the other search engines, although the privacy advocates and government leaders continued to ask the Mountain View giant to justify the necessity of this retention time in detail. The announcement explains that this data was and still is critical to the process of innovation. "When we began anonymizing after 18 months, we knew it meant sacrifices in future innovations," the announcement notes.