[liberationtech] DuckDuckGo vs Startpage [was: Help test Tor Browser]

Mike Perry mikeperry at torproject.org
Wed Jun 26 16:02:15 PDT 2013


The Doctor:
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> On 06/24/2013 09:16 PM, Daniel Sieradski wrote:
> > Has there ever been any effort to create an open source search
> > engine that is entirely transparent in both its software and
> > practices? (dmoz.org
> doesn't count!)
> 
> ...YaCY?
> 
> http://yacy.de/

YaCY and other FOSS engines (in a sibling thread someone mentioned
another that I already forgot) are also something that I will accept
search plugins for the Omnibox, but their result quality, index depth,
and crawl frequency are no match for either StartPage or DDG.


-- 
Mike Perry


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