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If you’re listening Cliqz, I (and I believe others) would pay $50-100 a month for a search engine that gave me the ability to blacklist sites. I think this alone could solve the biggest problem I have with google which is the reversion to the (what appears to be regressive) mean of the internet today.
That Cliqz is trying to actually build a new search stack is commendable. This is way more exciting to me than DuckDuckGo and other services that just package up Bing search results under different branding. I'm skeptical that they'll be successful, but I wish them the best. They should market (and engineer) strongly on privacy since that's where Google is weak.
> They should market (and engineer) strongly on privacy since that's where Google is weak. How can you build a privacy oriented search engine and still make money?
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« DuckDuckGo and other services that just package up Bing search results » Had to look that up. I found https://help.duckduckgo.com/results/sources/ Bing is just one of "hundreds of vertical sources delivering" results to DuckDuckGo.
Bing is the primary source though.
But is Cliqz a search engine, or is it a web browser with a search bar set to a default search engine (or a Firefox extension that accomplishes the same thing). Cliqz bought Ghostery to acquire a pool of privacy-conscious users. The goal is to show them ads. Not sure how excited they will be about that. If Cliqz really is a search engine, can a user submit a query to the database using her own choice of tcp/http clie…
That Cliqz is trying to actually build a new search stack is commendable. This is way more exciting to me than DuckDuckGo and other services that just package up Bing search results under different branding. I'm skeptical that they'll be successful, but I wish them the best. They should market (and engineer) strongly on privacy since that's where Google is weak.
Certainly it can be done. Cuil did it with about 30 people a decade ago. No business model, they ran out of funding, and no one wanted to acquire them, but they did get the crawler and search engine running and publicly available. It might be worthwhile to do the search part in-house and outsource the question-answering functions. Wolfram Alpha and IBM Watson could be used for answering common questions.
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It’s the one time where I can honestly say: The discussion we’re having within Cliqz about our brand name are even more heated and controversial than here on Hacker News (and Reddit for that matter) ... but then there is this saying: “Every brand name is shit until you surpass one billion users - than it becomes brilliant”. More seriously: we do think about it a lot - happy to get ideas.
Put your contact info here or in your profile and I'll send a really good idea...
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It’s the one time where I can honestly say: The discussion we’re having within Cliqz about our brand name are even more heated and controversial than here on Hacker News (and Reddit for that matter) ... but then there is this saying: “Every brand name is shit until you surpass one billion users - than it becomes brilliant”. More seriously: we do think about it a lot - happy to get ideas.
How are there even two sides to the discussion internally? I'd sooner cut off my left nut with a spoon than trust any company named 'Cliqz.' You might as well name yourself "Nigerian Princes Inc."
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It’s the one time where I can honestly say: The discussion we’re having within Cliqz about our brand name are even more heated and controversial than here on Hacker News (and Reddit for that matter) ... but then there is this saying: “Every brand name is shit until you surpass one billion users - than it becomes brilliant”. More seriously: we do think about it a lot - happy to get ideas.
Thanks for responding. Honestly, knowing that there are people behind it who read HN and are humans lends it credibility. Glad to hear there may be a viable competitor to google, and I'll check it out. Mostly because the big g has started demanding re captchas on normal searches from my VPN IP, which is clean and I have owned for years. Some of the marketing I've seen mentioned, "AI-powered anti-tracking technology";…
[1]: https://whotracks.me/blog/how_cliqz_antitracking_protects_us...
[2]: https://static.cliqz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Cliqz-St...