http://startpage.com serves also Google results.
“The world's most private search engine”
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#12I wonder what it takes to host a full search engine for the Internet now, if an organization wanted genuinely private search. Presumably you can buy crawls from somewhere, but does anyone sell a self-hostable general web search engine?
There are GPL'ed peer to peer search engines like YaCy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy
Unfortunately it's practically useless. But try it out anyway: http://search.yacy.net/
Re: “The world's most private search engine”
#13I usually use DuckDuckGo.com, because they have a neat toolbar and I want to support their cause, but everytime I don't get the results I want through DDG (which happens rarely) I just type !sp + searchterm into my search bar and it searches via startpage.com, which uses googles search results without my IP address or searches being recorded, no identifying or tracking cookies are used and SSL encryption is set by de…
Wrong, it is not same service.
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#14I've noticed while using this that the results are often very different to google's (and generally inferior). Sometimes I find myself switching back to "regular" google, but not as often as when I used duck duck go. One thing that really bugs me is that I can't do currency conversions or calculations in this one.
this, plus the lack of completion in the search box.
Re: “The world's most private search engine”
#15I usually use DuckDuckGo.com, because they have a neat toolbar and I want to support their cause, but everytime I don't get the results I want through DDG (which happens rarely) I just type !sp + searchterm into my search bar and it searches via startpage.com, which uses googles search results without my IP address or searches being recorded, no identifying or tracking cookies are used and SSL encryption is set by de…
Wrong, it is not same service.
>https://startpage.com/eng/aboutstartpage/
Start page by ixquick.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wrong, it is not same service.
> https://startpage.com/eng/aboutstartpage/ Start page by ixquick.
Nice quote, but you completely missed the point. How about just comparing the results, so it's very clear it's not same service as ixquick. It's same company, but not same service.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
> https://startpage.com/eng/aboutstartpage/ Start page by ixquick.
Nice quote, but you completely missed the point. How about just comparing the results, so it's very clear it's not same service as ixquick. It's same company, but not same service.
My mistake, I genuinely missed the "enhanced with Google part".
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#19Scroogle was a similar and quite popular site, but Google blocked it.
Re: “The world's most private search engine”
#20I wonder what it takes to host a full search engine for the Internet now, if an organization wanted genuinely private search. Presumably you can buy crawls from somewhere, but does anyone sell a self-hostable general web search engine?
That I'm aware of there are only three places to get actual search index results in the US, Google, Bing (via Yahoo BOSS), and of course Blekko. You can also get index results from both Yandex (Russian) and Baidu (Chinese) but both serve them out of data centers in either Amsterdam or Asia respectively so latency is a bit longer. With modern hardware (especially 3TB drives) you can crawl a significant chunk of the In…
A few years ago, before JumpTap pivoted to be a mobile ad network, they built a search engine using off-the-shelf parts on a hosting service. Some of the founding team members were from Lycos, and they had a pretty good idea of how to do this.
It was not run at general-purpose production scale, but they did show they could produce credible search results at a relatively small scale.
There are several open source spiders out there. As Web search portals increasingly aim at the broad middle, I sometimes wonder if doing your own domain-specific spidering might find interesting things.