Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
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#2How does it compare to DuckDuckGo?
Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
#3How does it compare to DuckDuckGo?
Well, for one, it shows you a scrollable preview of every website.
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#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, for one, it shows you a scrollable preview of every website.
I saw that, that's nice, usability seems better than ddg, but what about privacy? Is it better? similar? worse?
Edit: If you trust Peekier enough, privacy as whole is actually better because you don't even have to click on search results on some occasions, simply because their content is of no interest to you.
More information here: https://peekier.com/privacy
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#6Another question I have is... who's behind peekier? And how is it funded (servers are expensive, development costs, etc), how does it make money (Google makes money precisely because it doesn't offer those privacy features), and if it doesn't make money what's the agenda behind it?
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#7Another question I have is... who's behind peekier? And how is it funded (servers are expensive, development costs, etc), how does it make money (Google makes money precisely because it doesn't offer those privacy features), and if it doesn't make money what's the agenda behind it?
That would be me. I thought it would be a cool thing to have - previews of a website before you visit it - so I built it. It does not make money but its monthly cost is minimal at the moment.
It is too early to discuss "the agenda" behind it because there is none. If it catches on and becomes popular enough, I have a few ideas on how to make it sustainable without sacrificing any of the privacy features.
Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
#8Another question I have is... who's behind peekier? And how is it funded (servers are expensive, development costs, etc), how does it make money (Google makes money precisely because it doesn't offer those privacy features), and if it doesn't make money what's the agenda behind it?
That would be me. I thought it would be a cool thing to have - previews of a website before you visit it - so I built it. It does not make money but its monthly cost is minimal at the moment. It is too early to discuss "the agenda" behind it because there is none. If it catches on and becomes popular enough, I have a few ideas on how to make it sustainable without sacrificing any of the privacy features.
Have you built your own crawler or do you rely on something like YaCy or Searx, or in other existing search engines?
Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
That would be me. I thought it would be a cool thing to have - previews of a website before you visit it - so I built it. It does not make money but its monthly cost is minimal at the moment. It is too early to discuss "the agenda" behind it because there is none. If it catches on and becomes popular enough, I have a few ideas on how to make it sustainable without sacrificing any of the privacy features.
Have you built your own crawler or do you rely on something like YaCy or Searx, or in other existing search engines?
A homegrown crawler is used but most search results are interspersed with existing search engine results.
Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
#10This is really cool! I'm honestly sad DDG doesn't use this, because i really like them, but i had no inherent "feature" (personally) that i felt was better than Google Search. This, seems to be better (assuming the search results are even halfway decent).
I could definitely stand for a "no animation mode", though. Ie, screw the css animations. They may be nice to make your site pretty, but when i am trying to ingest lots of results to find the correct one, i want things fast. The animations feel far too slow and cumbersome.