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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: 2) by quietus on Thursday November 22 2018, @06:18PM
Start with the book Introduction to Information Retrieval (Manning, Raghavan and Schütze, Cambridge Press). Study graph theory & algorithms thoroughly*. After that, some (most?) of the latest research around the subject of Information Retrieval/Search (engines) can be found, publicly available, here [iw3c2.org] (the older material can be directly accessed, but the newer material requires ACM membership).
I you want to delve a bit deeper into the mathematical background of graph theory or anything else [mathematically] interesting you encounter, start out with Dover Press books.