Are you worried about online privacy? Not a fan of anticompetitive practices? Maybe you just want a new take on web search?

One prioritizes convenience and personalization. The other puts privacy first. Which one should you use? We help you decide.

When the U.S. Department of Justice originally brought — and then won — its case against Google, arguing that the tech behemoth monopolized the search engine market, the focus was on, well … search.

Google wasn’t around for the advent of the World Wide Web, but it successfully remade the web on its own terms. Today, any website that wants to be findable has to play by Google’s rules, and after ...