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[sindi keesan <keesan AT SDF.ORG>]

Scroogle Scraper is gone.  It used to strip stuff from Google that
kept track of your browsing habits.  Google got mad at it.

Duckduckgo is another search engine that does not keep track of you.
http://www.duckduckgo.com works well in lynx. (lynx duckduckgo)
The search page looks very small and simple and loads quickly.

If used in Opera 9.63, clicking on a search result does nothing.
It works with Seamonkey 1.1.19 and Firefox 2 from DSL linux.

I examined the source code (very big and complicated looking, lots of css 
and javascript), which said if you had a non-javascript browser to use 
http://www.duckduckgo.com/html, which does work. (Though the URL without 
'/html' does not work well enough in the older Opera to tell you to go to 
the URL which does work).

The search pages with and without '/html' look similar but the source code 
for them does not.

In lynx or links2, the page without '/html' gives you duckduckgo lite 
(seems to be different from what opera fetched), and the other duckduckgo 
html.  Both work but there is no 'submit' link (it is blank) for links2 
and '/html'.

http://www.duckduckgo.com/lite works with lynx (2.8.8), links2, opera 9 
and seamonkey 1.

What other search engines do people use with BL and older browsers?

Sindi Keesan