Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
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Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#2(Disclaimer: Self Promotion)
Today, Google accounted for 92% of all Internet searches. Google and Bing together occupy 96% of the search market. Most other search engines, including the popular privacy focused ones, simply get the search results from Google or Bing and reorder them, because developing a search engine is neither easy nor cost effective. Consequently, the few big tech companies control what people see.
Right Dao is different. We are a fully independent search engine, and we have the infrastructure and build the technology from the ground up. That enable us to show the search results free from search engine monopoly's manipulations.
We invite you to have a try, while we are constantly improving the quality and adding more features.
FAQ: open source?
We think search engine's code is a bit sensitive in general. The engine depends on many subsystems, including storage, scheduling, indexing, etc. If the ranking code is seen by the spammers, they could push their spam websites. We are not sure if there's a viable way to open source a search engine.
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#3(Disclaimer: Self Promotion) Today, Google accounted for 92% of all Internet searches. Google and Bing together occupy 96% of the search market. Most other search engines, including the popular privacy focused ones, simply get the search results from Google or Bing and reorder them, because developing a search engine is neither easy nor cost effective. Consequently, the few big tech companies control what people see.…
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Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#4Re: "independent," how are you funded (so you can pay for infrastructure)?
Are you independent of VCs? of governments?
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#5(Disclaimer: Self Promotion) Today, Google accounted for 92% of all Internet searches. Google and Bing together occupy 96% of the search market. Most other search engines, including the popular privacy focused ones, simply get the search results from Google or Bing and reorder them, because developing a search engine is neither easy nor cost effective. Consequently, the few big tech companies control what people see.…
> We are not sure if there's a viable way to open source a search engine.
Yacy seems to manage just fine being open source and capable of self hosting.
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#6Do you have your own indexer or are you relying on others?
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#7(Disclaimer: Self Promotion) Today, Google accounted for 92% of all Internet searches. Google and Bing together occupy 96% of the search market. Most other search engines, including the popular privacy focused ones, simply get the search results from Google or Bing and reorder them, because developing a search engine is neither easy nor cost effective. Consequently, the few big tech companies control what people see.…
Looks very decent. Make it configurable and I'll pay for a subscription.
What I mean is instead of indexing the entire internet with an adhoc ranking, trying to guess what I want, let me whitelist and blacklist domains and let me configure the ranking. I'd begin with stackoverflow, hackernews and arxiv and probably blacklist pinterest and other paywalled gardens.
From time to time your search engine could suggest search results from other sources, so I could update my whitelist.
It could index pdf files or even show their summary with some ml model, perhaps for an additional fee.
Another idea that's been bothering me for a while is searching for movies or songs. If you figure how to show me the most interesting (according to my filters) movies in 2020, I'd pay for that. Even more so for music.
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#8(Disclaimer: Self Promotion) Today, Google accounted for 92% of all Internet searches. Google and Bing together occupy 96% of the search market. Most other search engines, including the popular privacy focused ones, simply get the search results from Google or Bing and reorder them, because developing a search engine is neither easy nor cost effective. Consequently, the few big tech companies control what people see.…
Looks very decent. Make it configurable and I'll pay for a subscription. What I mean is instead of indexing the entire internet with an adhoc ranking, trying to guess what I want, let me whitelist and blacklist domains and let me configure the ranking. I'd begin with stackoverflow, hackernews and arxiv and probably blacklist pinterest and other paywalled gardens. From time to time your search engine could suggest sea…
This comment made me envision a tabbed results page with my results from my curated, first choice sources, and a second tab of general results based from the search engine's best guess algorithms.
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#9"The Services are offered from the United States of America and, regardless of your place of residence or access location, your use of them is governed by the laws of the United State of America. Right Dao makes no representations that the Sites are appropriate for use in other locations or are legal in all jurisdictions. Those who access the Sites from other locations do so at their own risk and consent to the transfer and processing of their data in the United States of America and any other jurisdiction throughout the world."
That's half the reason I don't use Google right there and they pretend to follow European laws. So, yeah, right, no thanks.
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#10Do you have your own indexer or are you relying on others?
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