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| Title | | Search Engine Findx Shuts Down |
| Date | | Wednesday November 21 2018, @04:00PM |
| Author | | takyon |
| Topic | | |
| from the found-and-lost dept. |
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/11/21/1249248
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.
Original Submission
- "isj" - http://i1.dk/
- "Findx" - https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/6bg7ye/we_are_findx_a_private_search_engine_ask_us/
- "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=30217
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