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Search Engine Findx Shuts Down

posted by takyon on Wednesday November 21 2018, @04:00PM   Printer-friendly
from the found-and-lost dept.

isj writes:

The privacy-oriented search engine Findx has shut down: https://privacore.github.io/

The reasons cited are:

  • While people are starting to understand the importance of privacy it is a major hurdle to get them to select a different search engine.
  • Search engines eat resources like crazy, so operating costs are non-negligible.
  • Some sites (including e.g. github) use a whitelist in robots.txt, blocking new crawlers.
  • The amount of spam, link-farms, referrer-linking, etc. is beyond your worst nightmare.
  • Returning good results takes a long time to fine-tune.
  • Monetizing is nearly impossible because advertising networks want to know everything about the users, going against privacy concerns.
  • Buying search results from other search engines is impossible until you have least x million searches/month. Getting x million searches/month is impossible unless you buy search results from other search engines (or sink a lot of cash into making it yourself).

So what do you soylentils think can be done to increase privacy for ordinary users, search-engine-wise ?

Dislaimer: I worked at Findx.

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  • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday November 21 2018, @07:12PM (2 children)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Wednesday November 21 2018, @07:12PM (#764900)

    "closer to parody" hehe

    But the problem I have with DDG is its image search is even more useless than Bing.

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    "Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh

  • (Score: 2) by toddestan on Thursday November 22 2018, @06:15PM (1 child)

    by toddestan (4982) on Thursday November 22 2018, @06:15PM (#765267)

    I've actually found Bing's image search to be pretty decent. One of the problems with DDG's is that it seems to be hard-coded to only give you like the first 150 images it finds no matter how many it actually finds. Google's reverse image search is one of the very few things I'll use Google for anymore.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @03:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 23 2018, @03:39AM (#765425)

      I use tineye.com for that. It works without Javascript :)