Thank you so much for running runnaroo. It was my default search engine for the last 6 months and I thought it was by far the best privacy focused search around.
Sad to see it go, but I understand.
Runnaroo search engine has been taken down indefinitely
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#12Thank you for making runnaroo. It was a really good search engine, I didn't have to trade off my privacy for performance.
Now I'll have to start looking for a viable replacement.
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#13In my experience there's been an inexorable decline in Google search result quality over the past few years (not to mention a corresponding increase in reports of tracking and privacy infringements). Having tried a variety of alternative front ends and engines (Startpage/Ixquick, Ecosia, DuckDuckGo, Qwant, Mojeek), Runnaroo delivered consistently enough to become my browser default.
And now it's gone.
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#14Been using runnaroo as my default search engine for ~10 months. Shocked to see the message. Thanks for this great project, godspeed.
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#15Thanks Chris!, such a great effort. I used runnaroo as my default search engine for a while and loved it. Great things to come on your path, thanks for sharing and demonstrate things one person can do to the web experience. Blessings.
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#16Hey, I've been using your search engine since I saw your Show HN post. Sad it's gone but I understand, thanks for putting it out there and not compromising on your core principles.
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#17Sad to see it go, I've been using it as default and been very happy with it
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#18Thank you for all the kind words! I'm the creator of Runnaroo. Runnaroo started as just a fun experiment, but it quickly became apparent that you could launch a meta-search engine better than just about everything out there (including DDG [0]), and I was frankly surprised how quickly it was embraced by such a large number of people (it's Show:HN reached the #2 spot [1]). The challenge then became how to fund the cost…
You've managed to bring better results than the leading private search engine, with a 1-person operation.
You're a giant. Sad to see Runnaroo dim the lights, but appreciate the experience had with it over the past year!
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#19It's sad to see Runnaroo get taken down.It was a great search engine you had.For now i'll switch back to https://duckduckgo.com/lite/
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#20Благодарю!
Хороший Проэкт.
Познакомился с www.runnaroo.com чуть больше 2х месяцев. Работаю за компом периодически но чутко.
Поисковая машина Runnaroo приглянулась и понравилась.
Желаю афтору Дальнейших успехов. И приятного апетита (I'm going to get tacos.)