I reserve the right to decide what's too personal, but ask me almost anything (the more related to FuckGoogle, the greater the odds of an answer). The FuckGoogle wiki on Reddit is minimal but like the sidebar, should at least give you slightly more of an idea where I'm coming from and what it's all about. I've been wanting to do actual semi-scientific experiments to determine in practice what actually happens when you completely block, drop or reject all of Google's packets, but other things keep taking priority.

"I got no need to beat you. Just wanna go my way."

I also have questions in turn for you good folks, starting with: How do you browse this sub? Hottest (default) posts, /new, or other?

Finally, you may find /v/SelfHosted of help in finding software to provide your own services.

PS: I know it's not quite a fair comparison, but not only does this sub have almost as many subscribers as the subreddit, it has more active non-mod posters, voters and commenters. Thanks to everyone taking it just seriously enough.

Here are archive.today links for most posts to /r/FuckGoogle:

Pastebin linkdump of collected posts regarding 1e100.net https://archive.today/JokEe

And nothing of value was lost (The Feature Google Killed The + Command For — Direct Connect — Is Now Dead) https://archive.today/lv1l9

A Reach Too Far: Google Healthcare Gone. And this is why we archive, so cowards can't pretend they never said what they said.

LOL Bing https://archive.today/d4IQk

Why We Need An Underground Google https://archive.today/QXVkl

Too little, too late: G+ drops "real name" policy (Google drops all real-name restrictions for Google+) https://archive.today/FC70l

Google Island expands its tentacles into your body Behind a paywall. And this is why we archive.

Google Inc’s fancy new lobbying digs in Washington, D.C. offers up maple-bacon doughnuts, treadmill desks and nap capsules https://archive.today/rUhAB

Why Google Just Bought a Company That Snoops on Your Chats https://archive.today/gVjEo

Google: Destroying the online ecosystem Gone. And this is why we archive.

Assange: "Google works like the NSA" https://archive.today/dT9z6

EU wants to break up Google? They should start with a look in the mirror. (Google should be broken up, say European MPs) https://archive.today/6hlXi

Breaking up is hard to do - EU wants to unbundle Google to promote better business and growth. (European Parliament Backs Investigation To Split Google Search From Its Other Businesses) https://archive.today/gAsqu

Google Maps: How to lie with accuracy (The Huge, Unseen Operation Behind the Accuracy of Google Maps) https://archive.today/rllrt

Who do you trust? "Google bank would be held back by lack of security trust" https://archive.today/aTcR3

Forgotten doesn't mean deleted (Google has now ‘forgotten’ more than a quarter-million URLs) https://archive.today/H0orU

Google Goes Off the Climate Change Deep End https://archive.today/mmtZG

Google sees silver lining in being regulated like telecom (Google Strikes an Upbeat Note With FCC on Title II) https://archive.today/ZH8Yz

Douche or turd sandwich? "Why Google Fiber Will Never Come To Seattle" https://archive.today/2Y7Eu

"Right to be forgotten": What it means for the search world https://archive.today/TirtT

Super cookies might be unstoppable (Brit Proves Google's Eric Schmidt Totally Wrong: Super Cookies Can Track Users Even When In Incognito Mode) https://archive.today/U42qV

Step 2: ?, Step 3: Profit! (Google searches for ways to please investors in 2015) https://archive.today/8WmEi

Does this German court ruling prevent Google from linking to Encyclopedia Dramatica? https://archive.today/c60G4

Two Years Ago: Five Things I Hate About Google, Five Years Later https://archive.today/amsG4

Ex-Googler: 'Tons Of Engineers' Want To Leave Google https://archive.today/tNASa

Google Gave WikiLeaks Data to Feds -- 2.5 Years Ago https://archive.today/PHt6J

"Verified health facts" (Coming to Google: Verified health facts in search results) https://archive.today/yprMV

El Goog have "monumental and highly complex constitutional, legal and geopolitical concerns" re: DOJ proposal on search warrants (Google Objects to DOJ Proposal to Amend Rule on Search Warrants) https://archive.today/0R190

In charge of truth? Google considers ranking sites on facts, not popularity https://archive.today/o9Yuj

I will only link to Google when unavoidable. In these cases, the discussions are locked up in Google "forums". So if you're willing to put up with the bullshit Javascript "Loading...", and not being able to just get a raw text view of an entire thread, and you've taken your blood pressure meds:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/websearch/f2sh29vW-ik%5B76-100-false%5D

Over and over in this thread and others like it, you see people asked to give examples of search not working. They provide numerous examples of search not working. And then it's ignored, or hand-waved off with a say-nothing "response":

Jessica, I would like to see your reply to our replies. Somebody from Google has already come in this thread and said the exact same thing a while back. We all submitted specific results as he asked... yet he never replied and that was the end of it. So, do you truly want to know or are you just another bot coming in once in a while to feign concern and pacify the unhappy masses?

So, to sum it up:

• + used to mean "only show me pages that include this string"
• - used to mean "don't show me any pages that include this string"
• "" used to mean "only show me pages that include this exact phrase"

Not only are all of these gone, they've been completely removed as options. I wouldn't care how shitty their default search was if they left the OPTION to do it differently. But no.

"If they can't even get search right, who would trust them with anything more?"

More evidence, straight from the elephant's mouth:

Google has gone downhill

Why can't I do a truly "verbatim" search anymore?

Why doesn't Google's "Verbatim" return verbatim results?

How do I force the inclusion of the word houston in search results now?

Is there any way to force google to actually search for the request I enter, rather than picking random words and searching for them instead

Results from a quoted search

Searching for explicit words or phrases without Google trying to be "clever" about their interpretation

Getting Google to work like it used to

Why have Google search results deteriorated so much?

Boolean operators suddenly don't work

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Non-G* links:

Programmer-friendly search engine?

Quit obsessing over anchor text already This 2011 article notes "a ton of buzz about the deteriorating quality of Google's search results over the last week" and links to six other similar posts.

Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine?