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'''Published on [http://interfax.werebuild.eu/2009/08/31/no-google-day-1-st-of-september/ Interfax]

Internet, September 1, 2009

''Message to all internauts!'' 

September 1st is the official No-Google-Day, and the Telecomix News Agency would like to communicate a message to you.

On the internets, there is a giant search engine called Google. It provides accurate searches and great data for us. Sometimes we even wonder if it is possible to surf the nets without it. 

Back in the old days, yes, back in the nineties, we had Webcrawler, Lycos, and Altavista. These engines were slow, boring and not very good at finding things. Then Google appeared out of nowhere, and changed Internet history forever.

The No-Google-Day is not a protest against Google. We like Google and use it every day!

Rather, the 1st of September is a celebration of internets for the abundance of information and potential of communication /// y/n to this? it brings to the world. We propose that everybody stop using all Google services for 24 hours because we need to explore a few crucial questions:

1. How do we navigate on the internets? The most common way today is to search text content stored on servers, Googles primary purpose. But there are many other ways to browse through the tubes we call internet. Your friend may send you a URL, you may accidently navigate to an unexpected site, and nowadays you can even transport a web server in your mobile phone over to your friends – a mobile sneakernet.

2. How vulnerable is our life when we use Google services as frequently as we do? Back in the days of television there were only a few channels to tune in to. With the internet the possibilities are endless, there are already more websites than human beings (and with the IPV6 protocol all living and inert beings could have their very own address). Despite this we tend to centralize our search behaviour to one site. This is not out of necessity, but rather something deeply entrenched in internaut culture. Even away from keyboard we colloquially announce "I Googled it", it has become a verb as common as "eat" or "run".

We want to ask, could we do it some other way?

How to participate in the No-Google-Day:

What do we do without google for one day?

Let us give you a survival guide for the 24 hours without Google services:
 

* Take a good look at the list of other search engines, so that you can try one of googles many alternatives.

* Have a trip to your local gas station and get a hold of a printed copy of a map of your local area, rather than using google maps. Use any copy-device, such as Xerox, pencils or fax-machines. 

* If you use Gmail, send an e-mail to your contacts and inform them that you won't be able to answer them on the first of September should they send an e-mail to your Gmail-account. Tell them that they can reach you on your hushmail.com-account.

* Instead of viewing all your blogs and rss-feeds in Google reader, experiment with other ways of finding new and interesting stuff on the net. Ask your friends on twitter what may be a good read, search forums for interesting news or go to you favourite blog and re-explore their blogroll. 


4. Report back in and share your experiences. Write about you No-Google-Day, take notes and discuss with your friends. If you wish, you are welcome to send you stories back to us, and we will link/republish/remix.

Telecomix News Agency Internetional and the WeRebuild clusters.


== No-Google-Day Proxy-server==
If you think it is hard to rember that you should not use Google, we have set up a proxy-server that block Google's webpages
:Adress: '''nogoogleday.telecomix.org:999'''

=== Guide to set up proxy-server in Firefox ===
1. Open Firefox and in the menu choose Tools and then Options. This will open the Firefox Options window. Click on Advance Options.

2. Click on Network tab and the click Settings button under Connection.

3. In Connection Settings window, click Manual proxy configuration. Now enter '''nogooogleday.telecomix.org''' in HTTP Proxy and Port address '''999''' in the Port field. Also check the box 'Use this proxy server for all protocols'.

==Search engines==

=== Search engines with a strong focus on privacy ===
Most of these can also be accessed via https (ssl) wich means your search terms are encrypted all the way between you and the searchengine. For those of us who are even more paranoid and don't like searchengines (or other websites) storing cookies on your computer, most of these search engines offers a way to use certain settings (like language, family filter etc.) by accessing the search engine through a special url (url parameters).

* Duck Duck Go (my personal favourite)
** http://duckduckgo.com/ - [https://duckduckgo.com/privacy.html Privacy Policy]
** https://duckduckgo.com/ (encrypted ssl version)
** [https://duckduckgo.com/params.html Duck Duck Go URL parameters]
** http://3g2upl4pq6kufc4m.onion/ If you are on TOR you can access Duck Duck Go through their tor hidden service (all searches are by default end-to-end encrypted and anonymous).

=== Others (non tracking ones) ===
* http://www.yauba.com/ - [http://www.yauba.com/?sttname=privacy&vid=l192251226206I1283342979&ss=y&sess=4656a3030303a376d64713a313a3a313a313238333334323937393&lout=dyn Privacy Policy]
* http://www.cuil.com/ - [http://www.cuil.com/info/privacy/ Privacy Policy]

=== Others (non Google ones) ===

* http://search.yahoo.com/ Is the second largest search engine after....

* http://www.bing.com/ Microsofts third search engine...

* http://www.altavista.com AltaVista was once one of the most popular search engines but its popularity has waned due to the rise of

* http://www.lycos.com Old search engine from 1995

* http://www.amfibi.com General search engine which includes its own index of websites.

* http://www.chacha.com This search engine is a fusion of computer technology and human 
intelligence. Live human guides are available to provide additional assistance in finding relevant results.
 
* http://cluuz.com Web search engine featuring semantic cluster graphs, image extraction, and tag clouds.

* http://www.cuil.com/ Search engine with results shown with images and a drill-down menu. General feature, webmaster and investor information

* http://www.entireweb.com The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.


* http://www.factbites.com/ A cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia. The results return complete, informative sentences about the search topic. Related topics are suggested.

* http://www.hakia.com/ Ontological semantic and natural language processing (NLP) based search engine.

* http://kalooga.com/ A search engine for finding images on the web, specializes in finding gallery pages.

* http://www.lexxe.com/ Processes natural language queries and delivers results in clusters by topic. Queries can be keywords, phrases or short questions.

* http://www.mahalo.com/ Human compiled and edited search engine.

* http://middlespot.com/  Provides a unique search interface for saving, annotating, and sharing search results.

* http://mozeek.com Search engine with a simple interface and no advertising. Offers the ability to create a customized topical or personal search index
 
* http://www.mozdek.com Uses open source search technologies and an index seeded from the Open Directory.

* http://scrubtheweb.com Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.

* http://searchhipp.com Weblog dedicated to coverage of the next generation of search engines and new technologies from the original players with tips, tricks, and tutorials on how to search more effectively.

* http://ulysseek.com A straightforward search engine with a simple interface.

* http://wotbox.com Search engine with country specific searching. Options to display country flags, and include preview and translation features. Sponsored links appear in panels separate from the main results.

* http://www.ask.com A search engine with encyclopedia, human compiled links, and normal web search. It also answers questions.

== Link ==

[[Google]]

[[Alternative search engines]]

[http://www.googlesharing.net/download.html Google Sharing]