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Am I the only person who just doesn't have problems with DDG search results? What am I doing wrong (or right), here? I put a thing in and find it. I just don't use Google any more. Genuinely curious why it's working for me and such garbage for everyone else.
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How do you save a search in a non-personally identifiable way? Do you have a human verify the data belonging to each and every search ? Not saving IPs and/or browser data doesn't solve the problem since the search terms themselves can be personally identifiable. How do you verify that DuckDuckGo does -the minimal and ineffective- things they claim to do? They offer no proof. How do you verify that DuckDuckGo does not…
"How do you save a search in a non-personally identifiable way?" To a first approximation, you just... do it. Granted, if you search "{jerf's realname here} {embarrassing disease} cure" or something, in the pathological case, you could at least guess that maybe it was me, though even then my real name is far from unique, and nothing stops anyone else from running such a search. But otherwise, if all you have is a pil…
> they’ve demonstrated gross incompetence in privacy Not sure I buy the example that is given here. 1. It's an issue in their browser app, not their search service. 2. It's not completely indefensible: it allows fetching favicons (potentially) much faster, since they're cached, and they promise that the favicon service is 100% anonymous anyway. 3. They responded to user feedback and switched to fetching favicons loca…
Maybe instead of hard-coding these preferences in the search engine, or having it try to guess for you based on your search history, you can opt-in to download and apply such lists of ranking modifiers to your user profile. Those lists would be maintained by 3rd parties and users, just like eg. adblock blacklists and whitelists. For example, Python devs might maintain a list of search terms and associated urls that g…
Yes, we can do better than DDG. But if you are expecting to fund a real search engine with a few hundred thousand dollars you are insane. It will take a ton of development and a ton of hardware to create an index that isn't a pile of garbage. This isn't 2000 anymore. You need to index >100 billion pages and you need it updated and you need great crawling and parsing and you need great algorithms and probably an entir…
How about a crowdsourced search engine like wikipedia or stackoverflow? Like: When you search for "kittens" you get the links that are most upvoted by the community. If nobody has ever submitted links for search term "kittens" , you get a link to selected generic search engines. And "kittens" end up into a list of words someone has searched but nobody has yet added a good result link for.
it would basically make already famous domains shine and dump lesser known domains into 20th page oblivion.
it saddens me because google search results actually helped you discover new sites and new people, but it's been years since that has changed.
If AdWords targeting was purely based on the search term, I don’t mind.
The search engine has to generate revenue somehow, and the revenue generated on “Saas crm” with a single click is likely to be larger than any users annual subscription. (10 - 100+ per click)
I’m unclear on the ethical / privacy concerns of “AdWords” style advertising.
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I can hand on heart tell you that Mojeek doesn’t and never has. I know this because I work for Mojeek.
Hi. I took a look at Mojeek (first time I've heard about it) and since you mentioned the site and you work there - In your Privacy page (Data Usage Section) there is a mention of stored "Browser Data" & " These logs contain the time of visit, page requested, possibly referral data, and located in a separate log browser information." & "We may also use aggregate, non-personal search data to improve our results". This…
But agreed that all search engines have to be trusted on their word about anonymising data and not retaining PII when it comes to searches specifically. There's nothing any front end user can do to verify it.
>We need a real, working FOSS search engine, complete with its own crawler. How would an open-source search engine stand against abusive SEO-optimization? If anyone can understand how the ranking algorithm works then anyone can game it.