[Tfug] OT:Any Free Search Engines?

[Charles R. Kiss]

I googled "Beethoven 3 mp3 download" and other combinations including  
other words like, "free, scherzo," etc. thinking that there would be many  
many versions, all over the world, of one of Beethoven's most popular  
compositions -and that I would be able to download legally for FREE.  I  
imagined high schools, universities, and other entities would have legally  
produced and uploaded their versions.

However I found NONE.

It occurred to me that maybe Google has already sold so much of its  
"soul", and had already so many commitments, that the first 10,000 hits  
were all, in some way, paying Google customers, or vice versa.  And that  
now, much of the search space is saturated with Googloids, and doing a  
real search for information on the internet using Google is hardly  
"representational."

For example, Wikipedia is in Googles back pocket: always ends up in the  
top three, etc.

Are there any more interesting search engines out there that don't have  
"conflicts of interest" issues with entities that fill "their results"?

What are people using?  What's a truly free, as in independent, search  
engine. Like Google used to be.

Know what I mean?

Thanks!
Charles
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