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 ?
(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!
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