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 ?
I guess I'm the opposite. I don't have time sift though page after page after page of bullshit irrelevant search results that Google gives me. If Duckduckgo didn't find it, it won't be in the pile of garbage that I'll get from typing the same query into Google.
(Score: 3, Touché) by toddestan on Thursday November 22 2018, @06:27PM
I guess I'm the opposite. I don't have time sift though page after page after page of bullshit irrelevant search results that Google gives me. If Duckduckgo didn't find it, it won't be in the pile of garbage that I'll get from typing the same query into Google.