The post is titled "why you should be using a private search engine" and yet there's only a paragraph at the end that's subtitled:<p><pre><code> Why You Should Use Private Search Engines?
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Here's the entirety of that section:<p><pre><code> The truth is, people know that search engines are
tracking them. Most websites have privacy policies
which clearly state that they use cookies and other
means of tracking users. Any in many cases, when we
are asked to give apps, websites, or products
permission to track us, we blindly agree. This may
seem acceptable at first, but it’s problematic if that
same tracker is following you two years later, when
you’ve forgotten about it.
Your search engine should be optimized for searching
the internet, not tracking you once you’ve left. Your
Google information can be used against you in legal
cases, even in civil cases like divorces.
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So if I understand correctly:<p>1. You might forget about trackers you've accepted.<p>2. Your search history can be used against you in the court of law.<p>They couldn't come up with anything better for this ad?
I don't disagree with the premise, but given that nobody can afford to make the actual 'engine' part of a search engine other than Microsoft, Google, Yandex, and Baidu you're pretty much stuck with having your queries ending up at one of the four anyway.<p>Masking front ends are ok but not any more effective than say using Tor to route your search requests.<p>Today this suggestion, you should use a private search engine, is equivalent in my mind to you should only use cash to buy things. When you have a panoptic view of both, digital and commercial activity the ability to create a reconstruction of what you have been doing or thinking through meta-data analysis becomes quite difficult to avoid.<p>At this point having your browser spam with other searches as a fuzzing technique would be effective.<p>I suggested (only half joking) that a fundable startup might be a system where subscribers send in their license plate and for $10/month or something every month they will get an envelope with one, two, or three other license plate symbols printed on magnetic material to stick to your car. It doesn't have to <i>look</i> like a license plate to you and me, only to an automated license plate reader which leaves a lot of room for avoiding state laws about having multiple plates.<p>The idea being that members plates will be thoroughly mixed with a bunch of false hits in license plate reader data bases everywhere making use of that data impractical for your enemies.
I couldn't find where they get their results. I searched for my real name which has a hyphen and it didn't find anything for me when google, bing, and duckduckgo do. Instead if found a bunch for a baseball player whose name is part of mine, and a couple of low quality links for things like "______ arrest records" and other junk. I don't think I will switch.
This is spam, probably for malware. They give no reason to trust them, their site is a series of blogposts that only contain inane promises, and they're owned by a company who developed "Adverify," which seems to be some service to see how well your ads are getting past blockers.
I really love DuckDuckGo too, while I find my search results can be off sometimes (Ie, searching for React gives YouTube reaction videos before the JS library) their bang search feature rocks.