Archer Library: Nursing: Google

How to Burst the "Filter Bubble" in Google

Disconnect.me
Makes the web faster, and more private by being able to block the invisible sites that track your search and browsing history.
Google Searching Help
Has help information on how to search privately in Google.
How To Use Google Anywhere In The World
Personal Web searching in the age of semantic capitalism: Diagnosing the mechanisms of personalisation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v16i2.3344

Google Alternatives

Google: Alternatives to the search giant
BBC article listing alternate search engine options.
DuckDuckGo
An identical search strategy will give different users the same results because the results are not personalized like Google.
Startpage
Search results come directly from Google. Previous search histories and location are not recorded because of privacy settings.
Million Short
An experimental web search engine (really, more of a discovery engine) that allows you to REMOVE the top million (or top 100k, 10k, 1k, 100) sites from the results set.
DogPile
Uses Metasearch - instead of getting results from one search engine, you'll be getting the best combined results from a variety of engines, and not just any engines, but industry leading engines like Google and Yahoo!.
Qwant
Real time search engine. Tracks mostly news, social media and social networks Best as current awareness search tool.

References

Devine, J., & Egger-Sider, F. (2014). Going beyond google again: Strategies for using and teaching the invisible web. Chicago: Neal-Schuman, an imprint of the American Library Association.

Pariser, E. (2011). The filter bubble: What the internet is hiding from you. New York: Penguin Press.