grammar and spelling on the about page are not very confidence inspiring (given this is a search engine)
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
#12(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.…
This is super snappy! How are you funded? Is it right that you don't collect any user information, including ip address?
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#13(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 promising. But how do we know you are doing your own indexing and not simply buying in the results from Google or Bing like pretty much all of the other search startups? And if you are doing your own indexing, I see you include some very large sites like wikipedia which is going to cost a lot of money to index on a regular basis, so how are you going to pay for this in a sustainable way?
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#14I don't know.
Is it "English only"?
I just searched on it for:
CR2032 "due fili"
("due fili" means "two wires" in Italian)
i.e. the button battery for RTC/CMOS on portables
And results are essentially "completely random" pages without neither CR2032 nor "due fili", most notably second result is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
and third is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_manageme...
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#15I like it, but how is it funded? Can I submit a site to be indexed?
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#16"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 trans…
Here's the problem with EU regulations: they really do bar small projects and hobbyists and assume that even the smallest website is backed by a corporation with resources to comply with pretty complex rules.
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#17"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 trans…
Here's the problem with EU regulations: they really do bar small projects and hobbyists and assume that even the smallest website is backed by a corporation with resources to comply with pretty complex rules.
Actually, that's not really true. If you don't store any user information, you're compliant.
It's only if you start storing those that you have some rules to follow. Nowadays, it's the same if you are in California with the recent data protection laws.
Also, Right Dao is under New York law, so it has to follow US law I guess.
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#18"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 trans…
I read that as a real benefit, I read it as:
You search something which we hope is useful for you as the cosumer. We wont the overly smart and show you information we think might be more fitting or relevant because we tracked you down to live near a super-potent adwords custimer and therefore rank his results higher in your search results.
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#19I want this to succeed. I have been searching for a while for a search engine which is independent from Google or Bing.
First searches have been relevant and also refreshing different and new from the big ones. Battle-testing will tell.
Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users
#20Impressed by the speed of the results. Some of my more obscure tests didn't give relevant results, but I guess this is still early on. Do you have any numbers about the size of the index, and where you're aiming to go?
My big question: What's behind the name? I find it a bit confusing and not very memorable at first sight, maybe an explanation would help.