Yahoo is using Bing so it is not strange that is has zero indexed pages.
Also Duckduck go is using Bing and some others like wolfram alpha.
The only reason I still use Google it that they are still miles ahead of the competition. I have switched for a while to Bing, DuckDuckGo and others but always wend back to Google.
I do value my privacy, for instance, I switched from gmail to fastmail even if fastmail has less functionality. But for search there is not a real alternative for me.
Yep, I tried to use DDG for some months, but often find me repeating the same search in Goog. However, usually I open a incognito browser window in Chromiums when I search in Goog, so it doesn't get my normal user tracking cookie.
You might want to look into your specific useage situation, but generally incognito shares the usual information with the server, it only switches off logging to the client.
For instance,in most cases, your wife will not know what you've searched for, but Google will.
Tor is an example of a technology that does what it seems like you're looking for.
There also may be options in your Google settings to opt out of some of their info collection.
Incognito mode has its own ephemeral cookie store, so it serves exactly the purpose he suggested. Yes, that doesn't address the fact that web protocols can still leak quite a bit of identifying information.
Torbutton tries to address information leakage, but it incurs its own costs (e.g. blocking things like HSTS and sharing the entire connection with whoever runs the tor nodes).
"DuckDuckGo gets its results from over 50 sources, including DuckDuckBot (our own crawler), crowd-sourced sites (in our own index), Yahoo! BOSS, embed.ly, WolframAlpha, EntireWeb, Bing & Blekko. For any given search, there is usually a vertical search engine out there that does a better job at answering it than a general search engine. Our long-term goal is to get you information from that best source, ideally in instant answer form."
Yeah, DDG uses Bing as one of it's sources. It's similar to the "meta search engines" of ye olden days.
DDG's big schtick (other than privacy) is to use lots of sources and then heavily filter the results/supplement them with additional sources (wiki, stack overflow, etc).
The founder of DDG has said he specifically wants to avoid writing a general-purpose spidering engine because you can sink millions of dollars into it and still be miles behind the competition.
Aye, I think Cloudflare had Yahoo! in there as a bit of a legacy thing. I find myself appending !g to a lot of my queries on DDG; but I'm fine with that, as it offers me some interesting features that I don't get on Google.
I do value my privacy, for instance, I switched from gmail to fastmail even if fastmail has less functionality. But for search there is not a real alternative for me.