As a continuation of my previous discussion on my recent aversion to all things Google over the past month I have been moving my default search engine elsewhere. I have been a fan of startpage.com. I have heard from people I know that their search results are not nearly as good as google but they don’t log your searches so I made them my default search provider on my computers. I do use Yahoo sometimes as an alternative to Google. They may be close to Google in the data retention but the advise I got was they are a bit more transparent and better at fighting requests to hand over data. That is purely opinion but the opinions of people I trust.