http://www.pledgebank.com/noogle Comments on 'not use Google during October and will join a mailing list to discuss/build alternatives' en-gb team@pledgebank.com 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 2 hourly http://www.pledgebank.com/noogle#comment_3432 Sounds like a challenge. It does make you think how dependent on it your are. Ok i'm up for trying. Ive always thought the 'decent' thing for google to do would have been to become a w3c style trust. http://www.pledgebank.com/noogle#comment_3287 I don't specifically mean "non evil" alternatives. For things like Usenet search, I mean any alternatives at all. I've no idea what there is. For web search, I haven't properly (i.e. for a reasonably long amount of time) tried anything other than Google for about 6 years now. So I have no idea what the competition is really like. The idea is to discuss this on the mailing list, and find all the best alternatives. Or ways to build them, or organisations that could build them. This could be anything from a simple script to give MSN a lighter interface, to a community run search engine project. http://www.pledgebank.com/noogle#comment_3286 MSN search isn't bad... Or do you mean *non-evil* alternatives? I used yahoo before I used google, multimap before I used google maps, yahoo mail before I used gmail. Simply reverting to these would work for me, up to a point, but it would be painful to go back to using them knowing that a better alternative exists...