I saw a short article in Time magazine about a search engine called You.com that purports not to track and has a novel summarisation of results. Has anyone tried it?
Any other search without being tracked suggestions? I keep getting emails from Ghostery and there’s Duck Duck Go, of course.
it’s absolutely awesome, a 4 core VPS with 24Gb of memory and 200Gb drive space, free forever (or until they pull the plug)
It runs all my external stuff atm (Whoogle, Mealie, Nextcloud agenda/tasks, gitea)
I access it through a Cloudflare tunnel or a tailscale pipe, so it;s fairly secure as well
I wouldn’t be either. Richard Socher, you’s founder says “We’ll never be as bad as Google. We’ll never sell your data.” Google doesn’t sell user data, it sells target ads based on its first party data. Just like Apple is planning to do. If Google sold user data then other companies would use that info to undercut their advertising business.
Currently Google, Bing, and Yahoo together have 96% of search marketshare which makes me wonder how all these other search engines are going to make money?
I stopped using it when I realized that many of my searches are for local info (e.g., “when does the grocery store close?” → grocery store hours), and Google alternatives are not great at that yet.
Side note: I originally thought this thread would be about this totally unrelated but very cool project:
Edit: no preview, so here’s the opening paragraph:
Monocle is a full text search engine indexed on my personal data, like my blog posts and essays, nearly a decade of journal entries, notes, contacts, Tweets, and hopefully more in the future, like emails and web browsing history. It lets me query this entire dataset to look for anything I’ve seen or written about before, and acts as a true “extended memory” for my entire life.