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Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

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We have our own crawler and indexing.

Have you considered using Common Crawl [1], and if so, what was your assessment when compared to having your own spyders? Long-term, a combination of theirs and your own could be optimal. There are strengths and weaknesses with using their dumps: on one hand, benefits include them having crawled and having dealt with being throttled, etc. They offer monthly dumps for general content and daily dumps for news [2]. On t…

We think the quality of their crawled pages (both web and news) is not as good as ours. Our total dataset is larger than their monthly numbers.

Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

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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.

"If you don't store any user information, you're compliant." So, how do I do business with people?

That is a horribly wrong view point. Information required for business purposes, e.g. to write invoices or file taxes is considered user information you are fine to retain.

It's not about not having information, it's about having consent before acquiring it.

Re: Right Dao, a new independent search engine that doesn't track users

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"If you don't store any user information, you're compliant." So, how do I do business with people?

That is a horribly wrong view point. Information required for business purposes, e.g. to write invoices or file taxes is considered user information you are fine to retain. It's not about not having information, it's about having consent before acquiring it.

I think you are not understanding what the point of view is. These regulations inject a whole set of requirements on a hobbyiest, not for profit or tiny business to write code to track regulatory compliance and ensure that various processes exist the law requires. Those requirements are often more complex and costly than the core business.
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