Googlebashing: (v) - The act of putting a negative light on Google or one of its components; including but not limited to employees, CEOs, and applications. Synonymous with Googlebash. Googlebashes (pl)

I thought I might as well continue my Googlebashing tyrade, since I have a little momentum going...so here is a writeup about an alternative search engine I like.

Gigablast is an "alternative" search engine, as it is not quite as popular (yet) as Google or Yahoo. But since I have been on a tirade of Googlebashing, I thought I would let my Googlebash continue with this.

Gigablast does everything you would expect a search engine to with a nice, clean layout. They are a bit unordinary. First, they suggest various related searches at the top of page which can be helpful in figuring out a topic. This feature is called "Gigabits."

More importantly, they can serve any query as RSS. To access the RSS version of a query,  append  &raw=8 to the end of the search URL. Example. (Note: I won't even go into how useful that would be for black/greyhat SEO...*wink*)

Anyway, you should check Gigablast out, alongside some of these other alternatives that Pandia put together, as it is good to Googlebash sometimes.

1. Google isn't nice to webmasters, as many times the relevant result is way below the fold, and sometimes is on the next page. This is bad when crap pages are there and are keeping people from getting what they need.
2. Google's advertisements are a scheme to take over the world...the online one, anyway. Google's ads are hardly ever relevant to the information on the page for many subjects, and they are not very pretty. Webmasters should be able to choose the fonts for the ads, not just the colors.
3. Google is taking over the corporate world with their network appliances, that index everything shared on a network. What if Google is building invisible backdoors in these? If they are, the Government probably has its tendrils in all large corporations' networks.
4. Google is very picky, in the sense that it is selective in the pages it actually does index. When a website has over 50,000 pages and Google only indexes 12,000, it can keep good content from ever being read by anyone.
5. Google likes money, yet they support open source. I really hope that Google doesn't end up finding a way to somehow "own" any open source software, which they could then make closed. Then, Google would have even more to profit off of.
6. Google cooperates with various governments to censor search results and prevent circumvention of filters. Even though they don't talk about it, many sites in the US have likely been blacklisted by the government.
7. Google does email. Gmail is great, everyone and their grandma has it. The problem is that with the indexing of all of our emails, Google has lots of power, which means your respective government has lots of power, as Google will cooperate with it. Think about China.
8. Google has lots of applications, and is acquiring more all the time. This is bad in the sense that a lot of these applications phone home. The Google toolbar, for example, sends "anonymous" information back to Google for unknown purposes.
9. Google records all of the information they can get. Your search queries, IP address, and surfing habits are all recorded. I hope that this info isn't anything incriminating for you. Personally, I use Customize Google with Firefox to stay a bit more anonymous.
10. The Google cookie on many of Google's applications expires in 2038. Why do they need a persistent cookie with a unique ID number for each user? Who knows. What we do know is that Matt Cutts, an engineer at Google, once worked for the NSA. Does that make you comfortable?

• Beg you for inlinks to Freebies From Across the Internet (You would have my eternal thanks)
• Try to get these sites pages' more indexed by MSN and Yahoo (they already are in there, just not many)
• Try to get G to relist at least one of these sites (Working on it, will tell you how that goes)
• Mirror the content on a different domain
  
• Any combo of the above