Privacy is not dead. You have choices in browsers and search engines.
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https://azati.ai/how-much-does-it-cost-to-develop-search-engine/
"If you want to build a search engine like Google (with a decent search quality), we would say it might cost you about $100M (for the prototype) – including costs for servers, bandwidth, colocation, electricity and so on. Maintenance costs for the existing cluster may go up to $25M per year."
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@paul1149: {question concerning political argument removed)
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This topic is about privacy, not about questions concerning the politicization of information.
Statements and questions concerning the politicization of information won't persist on this forum.
Why? the two "sides" concerning this question are not reconcilable, and their introduction into forum discussions is ultimately destructive to the very act of discussion.
Forces on either side of the information "debate" are actively killing each other (and depending on whom you believe, either lying about it (on the one side) or lying about it (on the other side)) in parts of the world. There's no profit to be had in engaging in that debate here.
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@newscpq
@aye1spy if you moderated my message, I would like to underline that I asked how could @jeffeyeread know that DuckDuckGo search engine censored or removed some contents from searches, which is not a "political argument", but a question on the practice of a SEARCH ENGINE: I was not talking about politics, but of something dealing with the activity of a SEARCH ENGINE, on some of the contents it should index.Could you explain me why saying that a SEARCH ENGINE censors some contents is considered a "political argument"?
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@newscpq I did moderate your message. You were going down a "this search engine has a political agenda" rabbit hole. That has nothing to do with privacy and was off-topic for this thread. It is already known how people "catch" search engines not displaying their favored content. It's because they find the content elsewhere, but not by using that search engine, OR, because the filtered content was there one day, but not the next. This is known. This is the end of this discussion. Each comment not concerning privacy on this thread will be removed.
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@ayespy said in Privacy is not dead. You have choices in browsers and search engines.:
Each comment not concerning privacy on this thread will be removed.
Thank goodness.
To the apparently
!=bot
after all OP: have a look at Startpage for gargle searches sans-tracking & advertising [ie, pro-privacy], or [IMO better] searX [with multiple individual search engines configured] for best, or at least arguably least-worst, user-privacy + search result efficacy.
Politics [made you jump ].
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@jeffeyeread try Mojeek instead. Best for privacy and they are their own search engine. They do not rely on any other search engine like Startpage/DDG do
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@yakov18 said in Privacy is not dead. You have choices in browsers and search engines.:
Best for privacy
Maybe, maybe not, but for sure all the times i have tested it, its actual search result efficacy has been extremely disappointing.
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@guigirl They're still indexing. Just a few days ago they hit 5 billion pages. And they welcome user's contribution to make the search better. I've noticed MASSIVE improvements over these couple of months.
I've actually been looking into them etc. and I'm satisfied they do not track their users or their searches. With no bias in search results etc
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@yakov18 Yes, i know/agree. Let me express it this way; it's a project that i genuinely truly want to succeed & thrive... it's just that in the meantime, i still need to get good search results.
I feel it's a little analogous to the very early days of DDG [which i began testing soon after it released]. It was quite pathetic back then, wrt efficacy ... but has become quite a lot better in the subsequent years. Fingers crossed then also for Mojeek.
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@guigirl What do you think about Gigablast?
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@yakov18 Ah, well, i know of them, but tbh know little about them. I had believed, til ~5' ago, that it was one of my enabled engines in my searX config, but sadly when i then checked, it was somehow disabled. Now i have [re?]enabled it, so over coming days will be able to assess their search results against my others.
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@guigirl Gonna come back with your findings hopefully?
Only reason I'm not using Giga is because I'm using Mojeek and contributing to that for now
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@yakov18 said in Privacy is not dead. You have choices in browsers and search engines.:
using Mojeek
During our brief chat i've been playing with MJ's settings; they seem to have improved a lot since i last looked many many months ago. Sadly though, afaict, all results are only GET with no option for POST... & these days i do prefer POST.
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Do you have settings import feature from ccleaner browser & other browsers?
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@QuoraHarshEntrepreneur No. Vivaldi does not import settings from any other browsers. It's structurally incompatible with other browser settings.
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@QuoraHarshEntrepreneur Settings are not likely to match between different browsers. From the File Menu, Import from Applications and Files offers import of Bookmarks, History, Search Engines, and Mail, depending on the application/file.
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