http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives...ch_engines.php

Here's a list of 100 other search engines you can use.

Someone stated their fear of searching for things and that leading to an arrest, I think that's somewhat inaccurate. The fact is your ISP can see EVERYTHING you send and receive over the internet. And if the police have reason to search your browsing history they need to present a warrant to your ISP, and they can seize the files on your computer. Even if you delete your web history the information is technically still on your HD. In fact, when you delete data off your drive it's not really gone that space is just reallocated and can be written over. So if you toss out your computer or donate it, it's best to destroy your HD even if you format your drive it's possible to retrieve that data on it. Anyway if your worried about big brother be worried about your ISP. They can tell what kind of things you're doing online, if your instant messaging, emailing, downloading, ect and they have direct access to your IP address. In fact, they know exactly where you live, where to find you and what your doing online at any given moment. While google only knows what you're doing when you feed it information.

Anyway x.x. Google (and most web pages) use cookies to make web searches more relevant to you. You can clear your cookies and you'll see different results in your search results. Like if you want your results in Japanese instead of English. What I like about google is that they order their results in a way that puts web sites that scam, phish, script attacks, or spam on less relevant pages, so depending on your search you're less likely to come across one of the sites.

Edit: ISP's technically can't see things that are encrypted. So if your logging into your email or anything with https they can't actually see the content of what your doing, but they still know that you're sending/receiving emails.