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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: 5, Interesting) by rigrig on Wednesday November 21 2018, @04:49PM (7 children)
Maybe the assumption that the target audience (people who value their privacy) do like built-in censorship was a bit flawed?
(And doesn't leaving out known porn sites mean the unknown ones get higher rankings? I'd expect those to be even worse, malware-wise.)
No one remembers the singer.
(Score: 3, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday November 21 2018, @05:07PM (4 children)
Seems searching for porn would be a top use for privacy. Wouldn't do to have those weird fetishes outed to the wrong people.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @05:35PM (3 children)
Reptilian themed porn is nothing to be ashamed of.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @06:03PM (2 children)
Neither is furry themed porn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @08:27PM (1 child)
But god help you if you go for that human guy on girl stuff, probably have to check the Wayback Machine. [archive.org]
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday November 21 2018, @08:55PM
Porn, not baby-making lessons!
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 4, Informative) by isj on Wednesday November 21 2018, @06:59PM (1 child)
It wasn't meant as censorship. It was a pragmatic solution to dealing with the huge amount of copy-pasted, keyword-stuffing, referral-linking port sites. The number of such site is huge, and we didn't have room for it in our index.
The list of filtered-out sites is available: https://github.com/privacore/filter-lists/blob/master/adult/findx-adult.txt [github.com] (182526 entries)
You can use that for "research purposes" if you like :-)
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 21 2018, @10:15PM
>too big to show
You tease.